Johnny Cash- Hurt

In our Media Lesson, we looked at the 'Nine Inch Nails' song Hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs&ob=av2e

We then looked at the cover by Johnny Cash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

Then we wrote up an analysis of The cover...

Johnny Cash- Hurt

· Directed by Mark Romanek- Famous Music video director. Also directed audioslave, beck and David Bowie’s music videos.

· Nine-inch nails originally wrote the song in 1994, where Johnny Cash then covered the song ‘Hurt’ in 2002.

· The genre of this music video is a hybrid of -Spectacle, - A performance of him playing guitar, and Narrative of him telling a story of his past life.

· The effects in this video are limited but instead, clips of him in the past are displayed. His lyrics are about ‘going back and doing it all again’ meaning life. Switching back and forth to good and bad film quality achieve these effects. So when he is filmed singing the song the camera quality is good. There is either a close up or a mid shot of him with a bright yellow light coming through a window. When the old video of him in the past is played there is a range of shots, with natural light placed within the frame.