Mise en scene:
- Black clothing; connote fear and darkness
- Black suits; high class and differentiate the characters
- Low angle shots of the band on stage; audience looking up to them
Editing:
- Straight cuts to create verisimilitude
- Slow motion to emphasise argument
- Fast straight cuts; unsure of what you’re saying and increase dramatic effect, matches drums
Genre:
- Close ups of instruments
- Following the story of a horror film
Target audience:
- All male band suggest boys would find it easier to relate
- Plot may not appeal to girls
- Young band, young target audience
Narrative:
- Video follows the story of The Shining
- Equilibrium; the band go and stay in a hotel away from everyone
- Disruption; strange things begin happening around the hotel
- Recognition of disruption; the lead singer follows someone in a suit around the corridors to find it’s himself
- Attempt to repair disruption; he faces himself in what looks like an argument whilst singing
- Reinstatement of equilibrium; they go into a room where everyone’s in doubles
Representation:
- Shows representations of gender, the video shows the lead singer to be strong as he pushes his double around and shouts a lot.
Enigma:
- The fast straight cuts make it hard to see what’s happening so the audience wonders what’s going on
- The video ends with no explanation
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