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narrative description:
this music video is shot in what seems to be a run-down area of midwest america. Despite the dingy settings, the main character is constantly shown as trying their best. AT 0:19, the characters are shown raising their glasses. This creates a sense of happiness despite their surroundings. The characters are shown to be joking around in the back of a moving trailer, which gives the sense that they are too poor to afford a car with enough seats and are resorting to do something that is illegal and potentially dangerous. However, they aren’t miserable because of this, in fact they are smiling.
The lighting of the shots indicate a run down feel which contradicts the characters and their run down, scruffy appearance
It is safe to consider that the ‘story’ of this music video is that a group of friends are in a bad situation but are sticking together and trying their best to have fun to pull through their problems together and be there for eachother
2:
The actual members of the band Fickle Friends are at Gatwick airport booking a flight to New York with Easyjet. They capture pictures and videos of their journey through New York on the way, with them stopping at tourist destinations and capturing moments of these journeys, like a travel journal.
The narrative story doesn’t seem to be fictional, but shows the band members having fun on holiday and being friends.
3:
one of the band members takes up the main character here. They appear to be writing an email to someone, supposedly a breakup email. Along the music video, pieces of the lyrics are represented in different forms through each shot. For example, someone writing “goodbye” on a blackboard, then someone writing “goodbye” in a text message
the narrative story seems to be that the main character is breaking up with a friend/lover since they don’t like them at all anymore. The message is conveyed through many different mediums in different shots