The storyline is of a girl who has healing powers and her story of healing the dying rich, this focuses on how healing others makes her ill. And how exploited she is.
I love this video because its so stilling. The storyline is to the point of telling you that the girl isn't normal in the beginning of the video, also the use of silence and script is very haunting, because at some point the surrounding sounds filter thought and brings the character to the foreground of things
opening sequence
Director and band
Under table shot of person drumming fingers
translated conversatio over the shoulder
point of view shot high of the toy.
attention goes to the two cups
we see the cups at the top high and floating off, main focus is the girl who is focusing on the cups.
another shot of her attention more drawn to her static hair.
after a blackout we see the toy in flames as she watches and this gives the story a dark undertone
pans down to her profile
Then back to the cups, this relapse makes the audience think of what had just happened,
was it imagination or real?
focus varies from the painting behind her to her.
we get the sense of her being bored and alone at the interaction with the toy.
a short blackout
video title
And the first image after the title is of the character behind curtains
Panning
moving from the character
to her neck
the focus on our character while she is in the car is smart , using the change in light by the tunnel it give it a feel of movement and dark and light as we focus on her face.
the exchange of the girl is done by showing her refusal to leave the car.
the entrance of a man
and her looking away
then walking across to him.
This is a very dark laced scene the unknown surroundings seeming to be of someone rich and then the dark clothing chose of all the characters, the slow motion movement of them, showing lot more detail to the audience.
shot of her out of center showing her out of place
Nervous gesture with shoes also highlighting the expensive carpet like the expensive room.
POV Tracking In this scene we follow the gaze of the characters to see what they are looking at
She looks up
and camera tracks chandelier above her
He looks down
we see she is holding his hand to comfort
he is paying attention to something beyond the camera
then we are shown the girl.
Indexical signs and Dutch angles
the gripping of the armrest a sign of nerves
looking through the rear view secretive.
focus is on her
as she falls the camera follows her by tracking but also tilts hist view
, this brings a sense of nausea and light headiness
then we are shown her on the floor
Video Analysis
The video starts of with introducing the character, showing her innocence, age and how alone she is by showing us the conversation between her and a Furby toy, the activity very odd but mundane but then coming down to the translated words the meaning of her asking it if it is afraid of her, is odd. then as the music starts we see that the girl is very odd, from the the shot of the floating cups, her hair static, showing something unnatural quick quickly, i like the static in hair, because it describes a current running through her, and also the image of hair raising is unsettling because it also is set in a heartbeat. The furby on fire is unnerving because of the conversation before, we become aware that she isn't normal, that she is dangerous and unnatural. We follow the story to see the conversation with her mother of seeing 'The old man' then another gap where the music comes back and we see her alone again, playing, chowing this child like sense to her, playing the game the floor is hot lava by herself. before we again are shown a weird ritual of the girl getting ready, her mother combing her hair them pricking her neck with a needle. then seeing this very quiet and anxious moment of her in a lavish house and her holding a dying mans hand. we see her afterwards being carried off and the way her powers are being exploited by her mother too elite people.
Narritive
The narritive dialogue of the Film is in a different language so it is subtitled giving the font a way to tell the story, the minimal conversation dies down closer to the end of the feel and is ver short, to keep the focus on the main narritive of the songs, the way silence spaces follow loud is something i never get old of, i love the gaps filled with or mundane things to show the character as a normal or mundane person when they are not, it brings out a sense of pity and interesting the character. The diagetic sounds are used to change scene, like the sound of Furby catching fire was heard before seen, which connects the previous scene to the next, it is a very nice routine.
Genre
The genre of the band is alternative pop, indie. And the video conforms to its uniqueness, the film is young but dark in some senses of truth but fiction, the way life works, with the girl being exploited for money is true and it does happen to theres but her being exploited for her powers is fiction, supernatural, i like the way that they introduced her power to us, first showing the childishness to her then the oddness of what she can do, starting off lightly with floating cups, to setting things on fire, the sudden change in sense and violence is very well conducted, as it goes from one degree to another.
Representation
The representation of the girl in the film is very relucnatant, and forced, she seems to not like doing what she does but is placed in a corner with her mother, and the mother is represented as the person forcing her daughter to do this. i think that its very chilling that its the mother as the effect would be different if it were the father, since mothers are usually the protective, marternal figures in a child's life.
the rich are represented as dying or ill and kind of afraid of death they will pay to tray and survive. teh video represents the music as very dark and light at the same time, the song becoming the reliefe of the film because its down during the times when she isn't working but before and after, its a relife from the silence of the film.
Audience
The representation of the audience follows the band, so I can assusme they are very indie and calm, like the music, the video is very artistic and cinematographic and a way of documentary , realistic yet not.
Also looking at the way the character is dressed represents The image of the bands audeince as also being in that fashion, because the video relates to the band who relate to the audeince, who are mostly reformers, not mainstream at all and very self fuffiling
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