The story of this song is quite unclear on first views. The
whole idea for this video is to be very abstract in the way that it is filmed
and acted for. This means that it makes the audience think about what they are
watching on the screen instead of just listen to the music. The shots of the
actor are just a young girl who is walking and running around quite aimlessly
into the distances. Most of the shots are of people interacting with random
objects and of the band playing their song. Also, some of the scenes that are
in this video are going back in time. My theory is that this girl might be
thinking that she is sleep walking and going around and doing all these deeds
like she is in a dream, when in actual fact she isn't. This means that there might not be any
relevant story to the song, and if there is it could be based on a person
experience from one of the band members.
Surprisingly for this song the lighting is actually quite
natural and not as dark as you would expect it to be on a video for one of
these genres. Apart from the scene where the girl is running around in the dark
all of the lighting is naturally on all of the character and the scene. All of
the light that is on the character is natural, for example when the girl is
standing next to the fire at night, her face and body is being lit up by these
flames. When the camera is on the band it is very shaky and the camera doesn't really
get too close to the members faces. However, when the camera is on the girl it
is quite steady and slow and to show the fact that she is sleep walking. This
gives a calm effect on the audience and calms them down. 
In this music video the artists don’t perform as actors, they
just perform their music as themselves; this is including all the band members.
For the performance it is all based around a young girl that goes around to
different locations like she is sleepwalking. She holds most of the focus on her
from the camera apart from a few extras that she comes across in the video.
The costume of the band members is quite casual and so is the
costume of the girl. They obviously wanted to make this video quite relatable
to the audience that they are aiming at. The props are quite important in this video;
there is one prop that stands out to me most in this video which is the rock
that she is carrying around with her. I do not exactly know what this rock
symbolises or what the young girl does with it. It could just be to represent
normality. The band members also use all of their instruments and equipment in
their performance.
Also there are multiple locations on where this is set. For
some reason the band are playing in a typical pub where people are watching
them and not really taking interest in them. The reason that this could have been done is because they might have been trying to make a personal connection with the audience by showing them as just average joes, as appose to heavy rockstars. The girl starts off in her bed and
then moves onto the location of the beach. Then she is in quite a snowy scene
but still with the sea next to her. The locations of this place don’t really
make that much sense but she is always by the sea. This could be in relations
of where she got the rock from. After this video she then wakes up in her bed
again. There is no significant representation in this music video.
The screamer singers are represented to be quite tattooed and darkly dressed.
And the young girl is represented to be innocent yet in her dreams she does
some weird activities.
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