Independant Work

Coldplay - The Scientist - Analysis:

                    

• As the video begins, a close up is used of the man face and the camera slowly starts to zoom out. The notion of looking is used as he looks directly into the camera enabling the audience to feel part of the song. The man speaks the lyrics to the audience and therefore shows a relationship. 
• The man is wearing black trousers and a white top connoting dullness buy using very plain colours and therefore this combines with the lyrics as it is a emotional song.
• The video begins to go backwards and therefore shows there is some kind of narrative. The lyrics 'take me back to the start' is used and therefore matches the visual of the man going backwards in time.
• He carries on to sing about going back to somewhere and the audience are shown many different locations he has had to pass to get to where the video started, this shows the audience he has travelled along way from happiness. As the video gets closer to the end more natural and beautiful things are shown such as fields, the woods and high key lighting, this connotes the close he gets the happier he is. 
• A wide shot is used to show the man still walking back whilst a woman lays still on the ground, because of the use of the rewind/time lapse it shows the woman is dead and this is the moment he wanted to go back to maybe to prevent it.
• He goes all the way back to before a car crash and when him and the woman were together showing that was when he was at his happiness point. It shows he has finally got back to start and therefore the visuals and lyrics match.