Andrew Goodwin identified 5 aspects of music videos that the audience should be able to detect in a music video of any kind. The aspects were: The star image, the narrative and performance, the relation of visuals to the song, thought beats (seeing the sound) and finally the technical aspects of the video.
Joe Gow identified six central genres of music video, all of which are defined in terms of their relationship to the display of performance: The anti-performance piece (videos which do not contain a performance of the song), pseudo-reflexive performance (videos which display the process of the video production), performance documentary (videos which contain documentary footage of onstage performance and/or off stage activity), the special effects extravaganza (videos in which the human performance is overshadowed by imagery), the song and dance number (videos which focus on the physical abilities of the dancers and the singer, usually through lip-synching techniques) and the enhanced performance (videos which blend performance elements with other visual elements, a blend justified through either associational, narrative or abstract forms of motivation).
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The video starts off with a car breaking down on a road (and if we're not getting caught up in specifics here it can be seen as a boulevard), and it is not long before we see the members of Green Day walk past various broken items. One thing that catches the eye however is the figure of a lady. This implies that although all of the objects around them are physically broken, the story behind the song is that it is talking about how the singer is emotionally broken/heartbroken. This therefore could be giving us the general gist of what the song is about. The lead singer of the band is nearly always the focus of the video whenever lyrics are being sung, and whenever he is in shot his lip synching is constantly in time. Him doing this gives the audience a more realistic vibe to the video.
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I believe this video fits with Joe Gow's idea of an enhanced performance because it blends the performance of the band with various other visual elements such as the story that is shown of a man and his belief that he is destined to live through his life alone.
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