Gabrielle Aplin - panic cord

- I have chosen to look at this music video, which comes under the indie/folk genre, as when creating my own i will use it as inspiration, i like that Gabrielle is shot with a guitar miming the words directly to the audience in parts of the video then the rest of the video basically tells a love story. 
- This video is consistent with her other videos, 'The power of love' and 'Please dont say you love me', in the way that warm, natural lighting is used to create a calm, peaceful atmosphere.
- In this video bright colours are used to give a warm, affectionate feeling to the video, this gives us the impression that the relationship happy and loving. Although saying this we get the idea that when she on on her guitar singing giving direct attention to the viewers that the rest of the video is her looking back on old memories.
- She wears vintage, comfy clothing alike the clothes of the male actor in the video who plays her love interest to give off the idea they are comfortable and live a countryside lifestyle.
- My favorite technique used in this video is when later the camera shots change at the same time as the beat, i feel that this creates a feel of action and really works with the story in the video.

From just listening to the song i would expect to see in the video -
- brightness
- summer
- narrative
- guitar
- model wearing indie fashion
- warm colors
- love story

 

 

From the start of the video we are straight away given an impression of the girl, as she sits on the bed holding her guitar with her back to the audience we get the feeling she is hidding something and being secretive. We cant see her face so it is almost like she is hiding her emotions from the viewer.

We are the presented with a high angle shot of her laying on her bed with a dreary, unhappy look on her face, this type of shot gives us the impression she is innocent and vulnerable and us as the audience have the authority.

We then are shown a quick scene of a boy giving the girl flowers, this staight away suggest a love interest. As we can see from the smile she has on her face we guess that she has feelings of love towards the boy as she is happy to receieve the flowers from him. This contrasts against her mood in the begining of the video where she looks sad and depressed giving us the idea that this is just a flashback of good times that have now sadly come to an end.

 

 

 In this scene Gabrielle is shown playing her guitar whilst singing sitting against the bay window. The ay she is dress in white with her surrounds also based around this colour with the light shining in from the window we as the audience percieve her as an angelic pure figure. If we was to look at the role of 'good and bad' or 'hero and vllian' in music videos she would be seen as good, pure and the audience would usually take a liking to her. Gabrielle singing inthe video allows the audience to understand the lyrics more and associate them with the narrative as they see her emotion as she sings.



 

 

Gabrielle is then shown pulling out, what we gather from the lyrics of the song, a memory box full of memories she has kept from her previous relationship. This gives us more of an idea of how she is feeling, we sense a feeling of loss and heartbreak as she holds onto the last memories she has.