Analyisis of music video (The Script - The Man Who Cant Be Moved)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9o1FAszdk

What I first noticed about this music video is that they didn't have any video footage of their band playing the song, just the lead singer in the street and it showed the band towards the end and in small snippets of the video. I found this quite strange because I thought that they would want to publicise their band as much as possible during the early days of their build up. The story of this song is a young man who loves a girl but she has left him and he is trying to fight for her back. The way that he does this is by going back to the first place where they met and staying there until she comes to him. This sticks entirely with the lyrics of the song and is very relevant to it all.

The story of this in the music video is quite rough, there for the mise-en-scene for the clips needs to be exact. It is all a very well lighted music video because it is set in the city at day time which means the natural light does the job for the camera crew. A lot of the camera shots in this music video are medium close ups of either the main singer of the band. I think that this is because they really wanted to show their facial expressions towards these lyrics and overall bring the audience much closer to them. This is important because this song is quite powerful so you want to make it as person as possible. There are no other main actors apart from the main singer. Apart from all the extras that are roaming around the set.

The performance of the main singer in this video is quite good and he portrays him how he was meant to be. His performance consists of hi travelling to the place where they first met and also sitting there and having interactions with different people, this is whilst singing as well. I think that because of the closer shots that happened, this made his performance because of the focus on his and face and also what was around him.

The costume for this character is still the same as what he would have worn in everyday life but it was also visible that they were a bit rougher than normal and could easily be shown for someone who did live on the streets. His costume doesn't change throughout the whole video but he does use it in different ways. For example when it rains in the music video he puts his hood up and kind of uses it for a shelter so that he can still wait in that spot no matter what. He is also wearing the same clothes that he is when there are the clips of him singing with the band.

The only props that are shows in this video are the watch that he wears and the sleeping back. The watch is very important to this video because throughout it the camera is cut away to a close-up of it to show how much time is moving through and how long the man has been sat there. The sleeping bag is in the lyrics so it was quite necessary for it to be in the video. There were also the bands instruments when they were playing and the actors that were playing the news reported and camera man had the props of the microphone and camera. This music video so far only has the representation of a young man looking for a woman. There is not really any other form of representation apart from that.