Directors Study: Michael Bay:

Michael Bay is a film and music video director and is known for his fast edits and use of "practical effects" (using a sprinkler to create the appearance of rain). He is famous for directing the "Transformers" and "Bad Boys" series. He is involved in many other film business: He is the co-founder of production company"The Institute", Co-chair of special effects house "Digital Domain" and Co-owner of horror production company "Platinum Dunes"

Bay has done music videos for a lot of successful and famous artists like Tina Turner and Aerosmith, however he has directed 3 of Meat Loaf's music videos, one being his remake of "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through". The video stars Angelina Jolie as a runaway teenager.

The music video is a performance/narrative and looks very high budget for a music video. The narrative of the video is that Meat Loaf stands is a fortune teller who rescues a runaway teenager, stops a young boy from joining a gang and other people who are lost and lonely. The video itself has a really surreal aspect to it with very strange settings and backgrounds. This creates a lot of symbolism and the way Meatloaf rescues all these different people who are lost and lonely gives the video a message. At the end of the video, we see narrative resolution when the runaway girl returns to her family.

The video is very visual and has some great effects thanks to the high budget. It is very "film-like" in its quality and has some great swooping shots in some scenes. The editing on the video is quite fast and matches the action that is going on in some sections of the video. This is a style that Bay uses a lot, especially in his blockbuster, action films. Overall, the video is very effective and the video matches the intensity and power that the song brings.