Ways music videos create and communicates meaning using media language

opening scene is low camera angle of passing buildings, and street lamps. The weather helps contribute to the doom and gloom of the music video as its grey and cloudy.

Then the shot changes to the band in a car with an effect of passing light over the windsheild. the band members are shown quite apathetic as they take there turns to sing a line from the song.

the next few camera shots have more energy and movement involved as the song leads up to the chorus. the shots go from a shot of their car driving through a tunnel then the shot changes quickly to the driver swerving the wheel as the group sings ‘Non-lexical vocables’. This leads to a couple of short sharp shots switching between perspectives of being in the car and another shot done inside a car in front of the bands.

There is a lot of movement involved in this part of the song to convey in my opinion chaos. I think the producers of the music video did this, since a ghost town gives off the feeling of the feel of an apocalypse scenario , no society or civilisation to be found and with that it would also give off a more creepy atmosphere with no rules or laws.

as the song goes into its next verse the shot changes to the shadow of the bands car telling the audience its now night. the next few changing shots are dark shots of the car as it passes by the camera and then again another shot of the drive with his face only light by blue lighting to again tell the audience the mood of doom and gloom and now creepier factor of a ghost town

As the band starts singing the lyrics again they do a shot with interesting lighting choices by lighting only under their faces to give off more of an eerie tone. then the camera switches to different shots of the street lamp lit roads that the car is driving along and as the song leads back into the non lexical vocables, the scenes start get shorter and snappier showing fast driving scenes and the vocalists beginning to maniacally laugh with short switches between them and their car driving recklessly on the road and even dodging a turn into a wall.

Then the camera switches to a bright light and starts spinning with the bright lights flashing on screen. then the camera slowly and smoothly fades the bright lights to the windscreen again directed at on of the singers with a very monotone facial expression. and to lead to the final scene the camera start to do its spinning light affect to then finish on the shot of the band out of the car by the river thames throwing rocks into it. the band have a brief moment were they acknowledge the camera and pause what they are doing which gives of a great feeling of creepiness to the scene and then they go back to throwing rocks but getting slower and slower with more head turns to the camera until it fades to black.