Radiohead - Street Spirit
During the lesson today we watched this music video by Radiohead the first time through we only listened to the video and the lyrics and from this we had to try and guess what the visuals would be. We all thought something dark and sinister.
The music video begins with the singer standing up against a black background and this could symbolise the inner feeling the character is feeling this is because the singer is drowned in a black background and this makes him look small and weak. The next shot is the singer falling from a caravan in slow motion and this immediately causes you to question why the singer is falling thus creating an enigma code causing the audience to ask questions. Nearer the end of the music video there is a passage of video which uses slow motion but only on the singer where he runs past a boy on a chair and he is running at normal speed but as soon as he passes he is in slow motion and the boy runs off at normal speed, this could be because the artist wants to convey the message that life goes on no matter what. Even if you feel like time is going slow because you are having fun t isn't yu are just enjoying it and that is why the slow motion could have been used to convey this message.
