The video opens with a medium shot of two light bulbs hanging from the celling of what looks like a pub. When the music kicks in the lights shine bright and get to see the surroundings a bit more as the camera tracks backwards allowing us to see more of the scene. The shot then cuts to a close up of somebody playing the guitar which switches from this shot to other band members playing their instruments. A pan shot shot behind the band members cut with close up shots of them playing their instruments is almost mysterious in a way as we still haven't met the band members as a band, they have only been shot separately.
Suddenly its cuts of an extreme long shot of the band playing on a stage with lots of lights surrounding them. Still switch from extreme close ups of the band playing, the lead singer singing, it again cuts back to the band members from behind playing there instrument. As the chorus is sung by the band members the long shot of them from the front turns into a zoom as we get to see the band members sing altogether. It the quickly cuts to the guitar being strummed and the main singer singing before cutting back to the band playing there instruments extremely passionately.
As the words to the music kick in after a the music being played it takes you to a shot of the main singer singing in a tilt camera shot this could because it relates to the emotion of the lyrics. Again the shots are constantly switch with different focus' different compositions from extreme close ups of instruments being played. The camera is never sat still in this part of the music video, even when the camera is focusing on one thing, like the instrument or a band member the shot is either slighting moving slowly from side to side or zooming in and zooming out.
This time as the chorus kicks in, the camera doesn't constantly focus on the lead singer singing it but the other band members singing. As the camera zooms into them performing on the stage it then changes from a shot of the band members behind, and it is zooming outwards making the band members be the focus of the big empty space in front of them. As the tempo of the music gets faster the quicker the shots get, quickly switching from between the usual main singer and instruments.
As the tempo of the music gets slower, so does the shot lengths. These shots are still of the same things but are for longer periods of time. One shot cuts to the lead singer high on top of the balcony of the theatre showing him to be dominant and powerful. As the music gets faster the shots do exactly the same. When the music comes to a quick stop it shows the lights turn off with the music then turn back on again when the music quickly kicks in.
When all the music has stopped being played and its just the band members singing there is a various of close up shots on the different band members to show this, and switched from the main lead singer and them altogether on the stage. The end finishes with a shot of the band members from behind with a pan shot going upwards facing the ceiling then fades out to black.
The interesting thing about this music video is it has been shot in the same setting all the way throughout, it doesn't have a narrative, and it follows the same shots throughout, but as an audience we don't get board of this which I think is down to the wide variety camera shots, and angles.
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