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Ben Morgan
Within this music video an array of shots from different angles are accompanied
by a subtitle with a mixture of lyrics from the song or messages which link but
are either serious or humorous. By having this it gives the audience an
understanding into how they are feeling at that stage in the video and can show
the emotion through the phrases. For example, Silence is golden, Nobody can
see me., Stop Singing Stop Singing Stop Singing and Theyre going to miss
me. These subtitles keeps the viewers attention throughout due to the fact that
it puts a thought into their mind about what will happen when the rest of the
story is revealed later in the video. This is effective because it makes the music
video slightly more intriguing and interesting to watch whilst it will also become
popular due to the unique effect of the usage of the subtitles.
This music video had glimpses of being a concept video but the symbolic type
due to the constant religious references however they were very subtle. These
symbols included a figure of Jesus in the back of a car that was shown through a
close up, the man ripping pages out of the bible and letting them float away and
also the protagonist from the band lying on the bonnet of the car in the
crucification symbol. This illustrates to me that whatever pain people are put
through God is always there to help them through it every step of the way even if
they feel as though they cant take anymore and God will reward them for their
determination. As these symbols are subtle it could imply that God isnt very
obvious to everyone especially the ones who dont believe in religion however he
is always there nevertheless.
At the end of the music video it concludes by cutting to a news report after the
music had stopped. The camera is blurry and hand held making it realistic
showing the queue of cars that have been stranded by everyone after making a
statement. This added feature to the video makes it realistic due to the fact that
if this happened in this day and age the news would be straight on the case
filming about the event which makes this situation convincing. This is also
effective because it implies that if people come together and unite they can
make a threat to the outside world and have a huge impact.