Performance Video-Green Day-American Idiot

The genre of this music is rock and punk rock. This is shown from the fast beat pace of the song. The different instrumental devices such as electric guitar, drums ect which is typical for a rock band to have different instrumental devices. The video shows the band sing and dancing randomly to the beat of their music which is what a rock band usually does. The video represents its genre of rock through the variety of shot types and camera position which goes along with the pace of the music, lyrics and visuals we denote. The genre is also represented through the how long the take of a shot is, im this video they are quite short and sharp.

The target audience for this video is young teenagers and young adults both male and female age 16-28.