Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend are an 4 piece American band from New York City being formed in 2006. They are in the indie rock/pop genre making them similar to We Can't Dance. Most of the music videos that have been released, to me, very successful making them the perfect example to follow for deciding how to create a music video for We Can't Dance. The official page for the band is http://www.vampireweekend.com/.



This is the video for the first track that was released from Vampire Weekend's second studio album, 'Cousins'. This video is extremely simple, yet very effective, being entertaining for the audience and keeping their attention. The video only took one day to film, and a street in New York was used for the location. Though just two-and-a-half minutes in length, the clips features quite a bit of looping, driving, and outfit and face changing. The video manages to link the music to the visuals. With the song being fast paced and lively the video shows this and keeps up with the demanding nature of the song.



This is the music video for 'A-Punk' that is included on the band's first self-titled studio album, 'Vampire Weekend'. The music video was directed by Garth Jennings, who said to convey the song's "spiky energy," used footage of the band performing as sped up stop-motion figures, simulating winter and underwater scenes during the performance. The sped-up action was effective being used to conotate with the fast beat that is used in the song. The costume that is used is linked to the genre of the band, whilst creating a link with the target audience as the band and thier fans are dressed the same.



This is the music video for 'Oxford Comma' which is from the band's first self-titled studio album, 'Vampire Weekend'. The video was directed by comedian Richard Ayoade. The concept behind the video was for it to be filmed in one long take — similar to the band's video for previous single 'A-Punk' — with unified visual and musical aspects. The video drew heavily on impressions of the works of American filmmaker Wes Anderson.