This is distinctive of a rock genre video as musical instruments are displayed as much as possible, as we have noticed from sounding at other videos and analysing them. This scene is then followed by a mid - shot of him walk down this road; of course using ambient lighting. Close up of a letter box outside someone`s house, with the principal singer out of focus, but we recognize it`s him there due to the jeans and t-shirt he was wearing in the previous shots. Point of view shot from someone looking out the windowpane of the house, and the leas singer then becomes focused. Mid - shot off center of the principal singer, showing it is him that was being watched. Camera pans across screen so the lead singer is now still further off the screen, and this scene is replaced by the end up of the letter box followed by another quick snapshot of place of view looking through the window, to see the lead singer walking past. Mid shot of the principal singer shows him walk down the road again, and a fold up shows his feet, walking down the road, with shadows being created as he walks. Next shows a close up of a car bonnet in the lower portion of the screen, with what looks to be the band walking away from the car with their backs to us. We are shown a fold up of a house of a school, and this opens up the effrontery to maybe this is the position they are passing to use to work their music at? This would be distinctive of this genre as rock videos always indicate the band performing at a particular location. Mid shot, of legs walking, creating shadows, and from this detailed shot it shows them carrying guitar cases, further enforcing that they are near to play, this shot cuts to a mid-shot, and we see the unit game of the four band members walking towards the construction of the school . The next scene shows that they are in a school gym, by the use of basketball nets, chairs and the shiny floor of a distinctive American school gym. They make all their equipment set up and from this long shot we can see the principal singer lip synching and acting in line to the relief of the members, on the drums and guitars. The camera pans around so we can intake this point from a different angle. The camera then cuts to one of the guitarists to a fold up of his face, as he too is singing, it then pans around him so we get many angels of him. The camera cuts to the other guitarists and pans around him, showing in him off centre, but his men are more key to appear at as he strums the guitar. The camera then cuts to the principal singer, showing him singing, and shows the lights in the background. The gym is well lit, and no shadows here are shown, which is unusual for this genre, but it still shows that light is crucial in this genre and is well lit to the extreme. Also from all the shots of the band members it concentrates on showing us their equipment, showing it is important. As the music and pace pick up so do the shots, which are quicker cut, it goes from the end up of the principal singer, to a fold up of the drummer with the drums being more in the test than he is, to a long shot showing the whole band. As the chorus starts, with the dramatic emphasis from the drums, very quick cuts happen, showing all the band members involved in this song, the drummers hits the symbol, to the principal singer singing his eye out, to display the guitarist`s movement as he plays, then to a quick long shot showing all the circle in action. This design is shown in all rock videos, but this is the region where the stage normally lights up as good as fast but detailed action. Throughout the chorus this practice is repeated, but from different angles to save it interesting. As the pace slows down a bit, it cuts to a mid shot of two trucks coming down a route to a quick cut of these two trucks pulling into a drive way on what seems to be a farm house, as there is nothing surrounding it. It then cuts back to the circle in the school gym, and shows a mid-shot of the principal singer, singing and strumming his guitar, with a quick cut to one of the guitarists. We are shown that there are a lot of people arriving at this farmhouse as much of people get out of the trucks shown from a long shot, and that they are all new and happy, it then cuts backs to the gym and shows the same form of all the band members and close ups. It then cuts back to the new people, and it seems as though these are flashbacks as they are in slow motion, and the yard of the music is now slower. It then cuts to a mid-shot of a girl running between cars, and a guy chasing after her, who catches her and embraces her, they are never in the middle of the screen, and it seems like the lead singer is reminiscing on past memories and that this is a distant memory, as he sings "I was so anxious that I nearly missed". As the pace picks up again a hand held camera effect is used as it cuts from one band member to the other, as it is wobbly and quick, but is synchronous with the medicine and fits together well. Another flashback is shown by a mid-shot showing two hands joined together, and from these shots we can say that they are definitely flashbacks and that it is off his past relationship from high school. "I lack that town, I lose the faces", it cuts from his face as he sings to places from the township to two twin women, showing that the video shots are relevant to the lyrics of the song. From these flash backs a clean light shines as these shots come onto the screen, giving the definite effect that they are memories. After each flash back it usually goes to a quick cut of the principal singer, with him at a low angel with the camera above him, emphasising how strong that these memories are and that they are occupying his head completely. "Goodbye goodbye" shows a mid-shot of him from the first but turn round to go back from the way he came. This ends the song nicely and makes us realise he was telling about his past, and they are telling in the position where he went to school, and they are in the township he exploited to live, and he went back to "relive those days". It ends with a flashback of him and his friends driving off into the
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