Wednesday, 14 October 2009


music video: editors 'smokers outside hospital doors'

The editors music video is divided into two narratives one narrative shows the editors band ,setting up equipment and then singing a song on there boat. the other narrative follows a young woman or girl who escapes from an unknown institute and then tries escaping from the clutch of the police. the mise en scene is very dark and grtey. the clothing is also very dark and the weather is dull suggesting this is more of an pesimistic story.
the first scene shows the back entrance of a dark grey building. before the music starts diegetic sounds of trees and birds cxan be heard and the audience can still hear the girls movements while she is escapng, for instance door opening and closing, stepping down ladder etc. the girl then starts running and then the music is introduced . this then when the other narrative enters showing the leader singer climbing a boat ladder and it keeps cuting away to both characters using a close up of the girls knee and below she begins running to the sound of the music, it then shows a shot of her face from a side angleonce the voices are heard from the singers it shows numerouse medium shots and mans of the lead singer. This then follows the girl trying to evade capture by running on rail tracks, and on streets hiding.numerouse shots are shown of the entire band once the music gets to it's highest volume peak. during the narrative of the girl trying to escape, she is helped by numerouse poeple including a prostitute and certain types of animals including a dog there also gypsy type people who also help her suggesting she is not alone . however she can be represented as inderpendant as she begins make her own way to safety including using a boat. as she begins to make her own way accross the water, flashbacks are used showing how she escaped. the audience later understand the place she is escaping is an orphanage the flashbacks continue until the convergence to the establishing shot of the back exit.
when she returns to present day she is encountered by many police boats. and then runs across the open water ass of skimming the surface which is unusual for such a relaistic narrative as she is running accross the water towards a boat there are scenes of the lead singer walking outside. the two narratives then collide with the girl meeting the lead singer on the boat, she then runns into the distance smilling suggesting she has finally found her freedom.

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