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Since we are doing the side narrative of our video being the story of a girl I found this video online and found it seemed to fit.

Although there is less of a narrative in this video is still involves mainly performance and the small narrative in the story is about a girl on her own.

Band: The Blackout
Song: It's High Tide Baby
Album: We Are The Dynamite
Year: 2007



The video contains a variety of shots right from the beginning. It changes from a low angle shot to close ups on the instruments and then to mid-shots of the band within the first 5 seconds. This variety of shots makes the video look interesting.This is followed by a long shot including all of the band, which is almost a panoramic shot. The camerawork tends to move in time with the music. Especially at 14-19 seconds when the lead singer is jumping in time to the beat and when he flicks his hair it moves in time to the music. The shots also show each band member individually in close ups of themselves and in close ups on the instruments; it also shows each band member in their most prominent parts in the video. For example, close up on the guitarists when the guitars do a riff or solo and close ups on the singers when they are singing their lines. This video also uses a technique which shows each singer singing the same line as they do on the track but cuts quickly between the 2 of them showing each singer singing 'woah'. Straight after this however; it does not show the lyrics for the next line as it is introducing us to the female character by using a transistion by fading in to her. After showing us the female character the shot changes to a midshot of the singer with a bright bluish / white light behind contrasting to the shot of the girl who has a black background.

The lighting becomes a key feature as the band tend to have a bright, light background behind them and th girl has a dark background with no light at all. This is then emphasised from about 1.30 seconds in when the girl is walking with the camera behind her doing a low angled shot. This shows a contrast as the singer and the girl walk towards each other that are now silhouetted whereas before we could see the characters clearly. The camera seems to have more of a handheld feel when it is behind the girl and looks as if someone is following her. It could symbolise that we are in the sasme position as the girl and we are her shadow, following behind her.

The lyrics also match in with the narrative as when it's the line 'you're beautiful' it show the singer from the band run his fingers through her hair and go to kiss her. Then on the line 'are you worth fighting for' it shows the girl pulling away. On the next lyric 'say goodbye' it shows the singer walking back with his eyes fixed on the girl and then he goes out of focus. This emphasises the fact that she is gone and he'll have to say goodbye even though he doesn't want to.

When the singer and the girl finally meet each