Shane Drake

Shane Drake is another American music video director, who uses a narrative based style in his videos, although his work and himself are not too well known in the more famous side of the music industry although he has worked with a number of mainstream rock genre bands e.g Panic at the disco, Paramore, Fall out boy and The red jumpsuit apparatus etc. 

This is 'beat it' by Michael Jackson, one of the few pop genre music videos that Shane Drake has directed, although its a well choreographed showcase type video.

On the right is one of my favourite songs, 'I write sins not tragedies' by Panic at the disco. It has a great gothic wedding theme to it as it is narrative based and the faces of the wedding witnesses are painted on which emphasises the rock genre of the song, which could be referred to as Kiss' painted faces when they performed.

Another great showcase type video below is 'crushcrushcrush' by Paramore. The setting of this video is brilliant in the middle of a dessert which makes Paramore the main focus, although there are a lot of close ups of instruments, equipment, amps and members of the band.