Music Video Analysis

This video starts with a tracking tilt shot of the lead singer walking along a sidewalk, the shot shows the singers feet for a few seconds then the shot changes to a medium shot. The shot then slowly becomes a long shot and we can see more of the scenery, behind the singer is a construction zone presumably doing some type of roadwork showing that it is shot in a busy city. the next shot is a tracking shot that follows the singer walking along the highstreet, he doesn't havent a care in the world and shoves into a number of people as he is walking along, he then knocks a woman over and three good citizens rush to her aid, the singer is still being ignorant toward people and isn't moving out of the way of anyone he then barges past a lady with a baby in a pushchair and still shows no emotion, he then climbs over a womans car bonnet who is waiting to come onto the main road, the woman gets out of the car and begins walking backwards shouting at the singer, at this point we see the camera move to the perspective of the singer, we can see now that he really doesnt care as he is paying no attention to the woman shouting in his face, for the next minute or so it is still the same medium tracking shot showing the singer barging through more and more people, he stops at a road and actually waits for one of the cars to turn the corner, then walks past a small market which looks like it is closing down for the day showing that the video is set in the evening, most of the shops are also closed, which also show this but could be there to show that this is a broken city and the singer represents everything that is the cause of the downfall of the area. From the sheer amount of cars and people we see it seems this is a big, busy city. Toward the end of the video the other members of the band cross the road and join the singer in a big line as they walk off from the busy part of the street.