Robby Starbuck is an underground music director who has
worked with bands such as Pierce the Veil, Asking Alexandria, Smashing Pumpkins
and Every Avenue who all follow a rock/punk genre.
In a lot of his videos he has directed there are a lot of
shots of the band playing their instruments and appears to be singing and
playing live which is a conventional aspect of rock videos. A lot of rock fans
prefer to see the bands they like live.
In his visual style he uses a lot of extreme close ups on the front man on the band and shakes the camera in sync with the bass beat to add an effect of a heavy metal genre. Robby Starbuck also uses extreme slow motion on the narrative story including speeding up the tempo of the shot so it creates a fast forward effect. This emphasizes the heavy style of the genre. he uses colour gradients in his visual style with colours such as red, blue and green mid tones that are adjusted to create a purposeful low quality film effect.
The weather is used to mimic the mood of the song, in the minor keyed songs he uses a lot of rain and thunder. In contrast with the major keyed songs there are a lot of brightness and high saturation. Robby Starbuck was underground right up until now he is moving onto more mainstream artsists such as Akon.
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