Hozier - Take Me To Church INDIE MUSIC VIDEO - CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Hozier's, 'Take Me to Church' music I think was very well done. The director Brendan Canty, presented the story of a relationship between two men in a same-sex relationship and the violently homophobic backlash of the community. Shot throughout in greyscale is really effective and the video almost replicated an old movies that have no sound. Hozier himself isn't in the music video which is something we want to do Aswell. We believe it would be more effective if we don't show 'artist' as we don't want the audience judge the artist but the music video. This is a common feature of this genre and other music video such as The Neighbourhood's 'Female Robbery' , doesn't include the artist either.
Here is the videos swell as some screen shots from Hozier's narrative music video: