Ed Sheeran is a British song writer from Suffolk. His contribution to his music includes singing and playing the guitar. The genre of his music is folk, acoustic, and indie, this talented young man's music has only become a break though. The A-Team tells a story of a twenty year old girl who is homeless, and addicted to drugs. The reason why I've chosen this music video to evaluate is because, I enjoy listening to Sheeran's music and the video was created on an extremely low budget, making it similar to the budget of the film I will be creating, so I thought this video could inspire somehow.
The first thing we hear is the sound of birds whilsting, this is shown with a black screen that filters out into a close up shot of a young girl. The shot is in black and white and goes from unfocused to focused. The unfocused shot attracts the viewer as they try to concentrate on the girl crying (person 2.) The viewer then wants to know whats happened.
A clean cut of an extreme close up of a girl (person 1) who looks dead, the audience then puts two and two together and realise why person 2 was crying.The extreme close up of person 1 zooms out and at the same time unfocus'. Next is a black screen which cuts to long shot of person 1 laying on a bench. The audience now know they will find out the story to why person 1 has died.
An acoustic guitar then kicks in and the music starts to play. We then see mid shots of person 1 and the audience starts to notice person 1 looking unhealthy and unhygienic. The audience see a series of shots that introduces the main character, for example, the low angle of person 1 represents dominance but as we can see this is not the case with person 1. It could be seen as person 1 is the only person she has in her life, so its almost feels like its a relief in the way that she doesn't have to look after anyone else and is free.
We see a shot of just person 1's legs, boots and her quilt which has been thrown over her shoulder. This shot created the image that we are following this girls life, and shows how she doesn't fit in with her surroundings and the community.
Lots of different shots are shown with person 1 walking around a city, day dreaming, and selling the Big Issue. A shot of her standing near a road which we only see the back of her, is fast forward, so we see person 1 is standing in the same place, in the same position with all the traffic rushing past her. This shot signifies her life going in slow motion, whilst everyone eles' is quick and upbeat. Again another shot like this is shown of her sat on the floor in the city, holding a cup, begging.
A close up is show when person 1 is crying, this shows her emotions and at this point we feel sorry for her.
A series of shots are shown of person 1 putting on make-up, and dressing up. The long shot after, shows her being stood on the road waiting to be picked up and the audience can guess she's going into prostitution. A various of shots are shown suggesting she is having sex. We see a close up of her taking money from his pocket which it then becomes sure that it's prostitution. A mid shot of her and the man are in bed, turns into a focused close up of her and we see the upset, guilty, disgusted, shocked emotions on her face. An extreme close up of hands are shown and the money changes into a pack of drugs. It now makes sense to make the audience about what lifestyle this young girl is living. Several quick and close up shots are used when we see her setting up and taking the drugs. This is to give tension and suspense and intrigues the reader.
As the music draws to an end we see a mid shot of person 1 laying back on the bed and we assume she dies as the next shot is of the sky and a transparent picture of her in the background. Thoughout the whole video, most of the shots are hand held/unsteady. This signifies her unsteady, depressed, life.
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