http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJwz7wu8_s
The song was performed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass with the video featuring them and Dave Grohl with a cameo from Ben Stiller. It was directed and edited by Liam Lynch. The song recounts a music battle the band had with a demon and parodies “The Devil went down to Georgia”. The song claims that the song they played that night was “the best song in the world” but that they can no longer remember how it went. The song mixes spoken words with singing and has Jack Black voicing the demon as well as being the main vocalist.
The video features them recording the song in a cheap recording booth in a shopping centre and of them encountering the demon. The clips of them encountering the demon accurately follow the narrative from the lyrics and are set in a CGI created world. The clips of them with the recording booth begin before the actual song starts and features its own audio in dialogue and begins with them altering the karaoke machine to suit them. The audio also changes halfway during the song showing a shot of passers-by walking by and hearing the recording. Near the end of the song Jack and Kyle begin to record outside of the booth to the passers-by, but are shortly escorted away by police.
Mise-en-scene is used in this video to give the feel to an audience that the band are recording in a claustrophobic and cheap space which would not be suitable for a band that had momentarily created ‘the best song in the world’. This is done by having the studio labelled ‘studio’ with a star on the door, having the writing “YOU SING THE SONGS!” on it and by having a cheap disco ball inside, making the booth more associated with pop/dance and showing the booth to be patronising.
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