Tenacious D Tribute

1. Genre Characteristics
- Humour
- The video was twisting and ignoring the conventions of a rock song
- The Rock elements were - guitar, devil, taken away by the police, live performance.
- Old lady does not like the music which is an expected stereotype of rock music.
- It was rebellious however and violent.
- The artists do not look like rock stars as they are dressed more in casual atire.
- They are not the sexy rock star which would be expected in a rock song.
- Overall, the video is more of a paraody and occasionaly uses the rock characteristics but more so for the comic effect.

2. Lyrics and Visuals
- 'looked at each other' both artists look at each other.
- 'look in to my eyes' Jack Black points to his eyes.
- numbers with hands when they sing number such as 'three'
- As it is like a narrative and Jack Black is very dramatic with his hands the body language of his mostly presents that song. Therefore, the lyrics and visuals of this song do connect.

3. Music and Visuals
- When the guitar solo hits and the music gets louder the visual of the bright light links in.
- The cuts are with the beat. It starts of quite slow so the cuts are slow but then it speeds up then the cuts are much more fast.
- When they're in the desert, the sound of the guitar seems to give a feel of country western.

4. Record label and close ups
- Most of the video contains close ups of Jack Black. Jack Black is a very famous actor and known for his comedy with facial expressions and dramatic body language. They have used many close ups because the audience would be able to recognise him well.

5. Notion of looking and Voyeurism
- We are crammed in the studio booth with them. We are looking in on them as the camera.
- Outside people do not know what is going on when both artists are in the booth.

6. Intertextual references
- Jack Black - actor
- Ben Stiller - actor
- Evil laugh at the end is like the evil laugh at the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller
- Dave Grohl is the devil who is a famous rock artist