The silence - Mayday Parade

This music video features the same band as the band that I took the music from for my music video (Mayday Parade) and incorporates many of the same feature that I will in mine. It has a narrative of a lonely/pensive woman and takes many slow moving shots of her.
Most of the shots of band members are taken from a worm's eye point of view, perhaps to make the band members seem taller and perhaps more intimidating. The shots of the whole band outside of the hot air balloon have the singer further forwards than the rest of the band and the camera focuses on him, perhaps as a substitute for a lone shot of the singer. The shots in the hot air balloon also incorporate the same all-band layout where the singer is further forwards and the band is slightly out of focus, but to a lesser degree. They perhaps have the singer positioned this way because he has few solo shots and being the singer he is the frontman and so requires more attention.
Some of the effects used in the video include the out of focus effect on the band in the shotsof the singer, to perhaps portray the band as more of a background to the singer. There are also some shots of the woman in the narrative parts of the video thatstart out blurred and focus in, perhaps so the viewer also subconciously focuses in more on the main character and understands the emotions she is trying to convey
The band's look tries to convey that they are fashionable and well-kept, since their clothes all look expensive and smart and their hair, for example is styled.
In my opinion this is a good music video in the performance sections, but the narrative is somewhat simple and doesn't particularily represent the lyrics of the song effectively.