Bombay Bicycle club
Always like this.1. I like the way the video seems as if its on TV and in parts when the video is going faster there is a fast forward button which makes it look like someone is controling it and it makes it look like time is flying past in the video.
The video starts of with showing all the places that the artists are within the video. I also like how they are always playing instruments in the places and the places on werid they are just normal everyday places for e.g houses and shops.
The lead gets introduced first and its a mid-shot of him in front of houses which you expect is his, the mid-shot lets you see most of him the houses and him playing the guiter. You then get introduced to all the band one by one, as they all walk past one of the places you see at the start of the video and all end up together at the same place. The lead then goes to all the places and you see him playing in front at one point his standing in the middle of a round-a-bout which makes it more interesting as it looks like his having fun. The whole band is then at a new destination and at first it starts with a close up of the drummer so you can see him playing but then becomes a long shot so you can see the whole band and background. It then has a mid shot so you can see the lead and a guitist it then 'pauses' on them in video. The next place they play at is the house, there is a close up of the lead singer, which might imply that it is his house and because its the chorus it shows him singing it, at the next place is outside 3 garages but they kept changing colour which keeps it interesting there is a few close ups of the guitar, its 'fast forwarded' in the video which makes it look like they are there for a while.
The next part in the video it has turned to night and the lead singer is outside a shop playing and singing, you then see clips of different places around a town. There is then a mid-shot of all the band members playing outside of a place which looks like a pub or club with flashing lights, yet there outside. The next clip is as in a carpark and the way the band is normally set out has changed but the lead singer is still at the front as he is the main. There is a few close ups of the members which kind of helps the audience get to know them and helps them be regonised. There is then more shots of the band in places where they have been such as the busstop and outside shops. The video then 'fast forwards' to all the places they have been which recaps the video to the audience. It ends with the band outside the house then they walk off in different directions and it fast forwards to a black screen.
I think the video is trying to show the place which the band live and where they go, i also think there trying to show that its a bband who is trying to make an name for themselfs, as they are playing outside places and on the street and not in rooms with people watching them.
The Wombats.
Moving to New York
The video starts with a zoom into the man’s room. You then see him lying in bed then standing but watching the TV it’s all very fast pace. You always see a mouse cage which could imply he lives by himself and its his only ‘friend’. The lyric is ‘I’ve just had the craziest week’ and his staring at the TV in a daze. On the TV its looks like its his band and its him performing.The next part is a mid-shot of him at a train station singing that his 'moving to Newyork' which could mean his getting on the train to move. Throughout the video you see images of the band, so its trying to tell the audience about the band. The next few parts are very fast paced and are based in some sort of office or meeting, the main person in the video looks very stressed and tired which could contribute to why he has 'trouble with his sleep' At one point his peering through a door window into the room and it zooms up to his face at first glance he seeings werid things happening, for example a man dancing on the table and second glance a midshot of just four smart people at a table peering back at him. The next part of the video, its a mid shot of the mouse, and underneath is subtitles of the mouse talking to him, he then replies to the mouse but you see a mid shot to a zoom of him sitting on the bed with no facial expression. The next part of the video his in the train station again, put instead of a train coming out the tunnel the mouse does, this makes it funny for the audience to watch but also shows that he must be going a little bit crazy. Theres then mid-shots of him walking through a dark room with lights flickering then it goes black so you can only see his head and him singing so it implys to the audience that his lonely.
