VID ANALYSIS: Guns N' Roses - November Rain

Director(s): Andy Morahan
Act: Guns N' Roses
Genre: Hard Rock - Symphonic Rock
Track: November Rain
Released: 1992

The narrative of the music video is linear it opens with Axl alone in a dim-lit bedroom swallowing a handful of pills and progresses through 2 paths, the first the "lost love" story and the other the performance. The "lost-love" is about Axl rose marrying his girlfriend however by the end of the video we see his bride in a open coffin at her funeral.

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Andrew Goodwin: The 6 defining features of a music video

November rain features a lot of Andrew Goodwin 6 features:

Firstly, the video demonstrates the genre characteristic for hard rock of having a performance on stage. This is done using a variety of techniques, there are many panning/ moving shots from the point of the crowd, shots behind the band looking over at the instruments, close-ups of band members and my favourite shot which is of slash in the desert outside the church playing guitar shot from a helicopter which sweeps in front of him blowing all the sand into shot.

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Slash in desert playing guitar

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There is a relationship between the music and the visuals, for example, at the beginning of the song, the music is softer, more calm, the imagery reflects this, the stage is very dark with the band barely visible, however, when the song progresses and becomes more uplifting the stage brightens up and there are many more stage lights. 

Stage during slower section

Stage during upbeat section

Also, there are many close-ups of the artists, not only on stage but also through the wedding etc.

Lastly, the intertextuality of the video linked to two other Guns videos, estranged and don't cry, is possible, all three videos follow similar plots and production style.