In the opening of this music video we are shown a purple dress, and girls legs. This is quite obvious from the title of the song, that the artist or some person in the narrative is going to fall for this girl, and it is going to be a conventional love story, in which boy meets girl and they fall for one another, or the girl rejects the guy. Just from the first second the audience already presumes this. We are then shown a shot of a car, and then the artist performing the song and playing guitar. The artist then sing the lines 'tryna to figure out' and we are shown a shot of a wide open space which is representative of normally what people do when they wish to think about a problem or situation. Another representation is that he is driving, in the middle of no where. This is normally what people will do if they have the chance, they take the chance to get away from their problems by driving away, in the rain which people find calming. The artist then says they are 'putting up a fight, not giving in' and we are once again shown a clip of the girl in the purple dress. This could be representative of how he has fallen for her, and she doesn't want him. But he is saying he will never give in when it comes to her.
Shots used within this music video are close ups, long shots, extreme close ups, but also medium shots. Even though the director has used a lot of still shots, they have used a lot of backwards tracking when he is in the car and driving. This could be representative of the music as it is quite a moving song.
There are quite a lot of fading shots within this video, I believe this is representative of the genre because a lot of people within this genre have used fading shots, so this could be something I could transfer to my own work. The ideology behind this could be that referring back to the lyrics 'I've been trying to figure out' could be that he is confused, and lost within his world, so he isn't quite sure on what to do. 'Where do I belong?' This backs up the theory that he is lost within his world, he isn't really sure where he stands, not sure about anything anymore.
This video has a lot of verisimilitude as a lot of people who have cars will go on long drives in the middle of nowhere when they are lost with the world and have no sense of what is going on in their life at the moment. Nothing bizarre happens, just normal day to day things. Such as; after his journey his car breaks down and creates a lot of smoke. Most people that do own cars will probably own up and say that this has happened to them. He then leaves the car and begins to walk down the road; probably to find some help. While this is going on we are shown clips of his performing the song on top of a hill, surrounded by a lot of smoke. This inputs the element of performance into this music video. This section of clip obviously does not have much verisimilitude because not many people will sit on a hill and perform a song dramatically, with smoke surrounding them. But other than the performance side to the music video, it holds lots of verisimilitude for people to relate to.
The audience that will be watching this music video, could be directed via similar genre of artists, for example; I found this song from the previous video I analysed which was The Fray - You Found me. So audiences of similar genre could be directed to watch his music video as it falls into the category of 'Indie'. This is because of the tone of the song and how the artist dresses.
Theorists I could relate this to could be Laura Mulvey - The Male Gaze, this is because the first few seconds of the music video are of a girls leg, with a purple dress being shown. It isn't till almost the end of the music video in which we are shown her face, so this creates suspense for the audience, and making them want to watch more. However, this could also be contradicting Laura Mulvey's theory as well, because sometimes it is not just the Females which create suspense and desire for the males. When it comes to a male artist, it is normally the other way around. The woman watches, while the man is seen. I believe this is becoming used more and more, because women are now beginning to watch music videos, and find the man desirable, so watch intently as they find them attractive. So this could be where this theory needs to be flipped on it's head, because now women have equal rights, they are too allowed to look and watch males from a far.
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