After Midnight: The new blink-182 video.

I thought it would be relevant to look into the new video by blink-182 to look at the current direction they are going in and see how it relates to our own music video from the same album.
After Midnight is a slower, more ballad like song and therefore the pace is quite different to ours. However, the split of narrative and performance is quite similar and their use of a grungey, desolate and isolated environment for the setting of their performance is similar to the approach we were going for, which I think shows our knowledge of the genre and the band themselves.
I think that the performance side to this video shows some classic blink-182 features. We captured the same sort of characteristics in our band members that are reflected in blink-182 themselves, such as their interaction with the camera and their performance styles. There is very little direct eye contact and they don't seem to have any awareness that the camera is there, which is something that we have also included in our performance.
Another thing that I feel we have related to the band is the se of costume and mise-en-scene. The band have a very distinctive image that we have tried to mirror in our actors: