Street Filming

 When filming a Music Video, in the streets, it can't be 100% candid,

For my music video, I chose Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve, which is filmed in Hoxton,East London. The video is a single continuous shot music video.

In this music video we can see the main singer continuously walking down a pavement, he keeps walking straight without trying to avoid people, and when he walks into people he doesn't apologise or change his facial expression. However, we do see the facial reactions of the other people who are on the pavement.

The music video is 4.35 minutes long, however the lyrics are quite repetitive, and talks about life.

For me this video tries to explain what it's like to go out in the world after recovering from something very difficult, it can be going out after rehab,going out after a breakup or going out after someone you love died. The people who are hitting him are the obstacles and challenges we face in life, and the singer is how we should act, although perhaps not to that extent, we have to keep going, we have to stay strong.

Analysing the music video:

The music video uses a taint blue filter. The colour blue is associated with freedom and calmness, however Rock bands have this sort of rebellion featured in all of there music videos, and this act of rebellion (of not caring at all) is definitely shown in this music video too.

How others commented :

This is what people think you're like when you mention you're an introvert.

The people he bumps into and the objects blocking his way are symbols for the hardship in his life, and the obstacles that prevent him from being happy.

I don't know if this was intentional but the only time he stops moving is when the car passes in front of him and he stops and reflects off the grass.... sometimes in life we all gotta stop and refelct.

places where all the veins meet” is almost certainly a reference to trying to escape through drug addiction (which probably takes an even darker turn with “tonight i’m on my knees”). similarly the repeated “i can change” is the narrator telling himself he can quit, repeating it because he probably doesn’t believe it.

 “in my mind”; another reference to societal pressures and pigeonholing. the song then acknowledges the contradiction that’s he’s “a million different people” etc., because the mold/persona is imperfect and can’t handle the shifting demands of real life. at the same time, if he has to keep being different people, how can he really make a positive change? the muddled nature of the chorus reflects the narrator’s own confused, pulled-in-all-directions psyche.