Video type- Narrative + Concept
David Guetta notes:
- Muslim upbringing
- House and urban dance song
- generally about inner strength
- pulled from radio stations for a while due to the Sandy Hook school shooting, ties in with the song with metaphors about bullets
Themes:
- Supernatural
- Inner stength
- standing up for your rights
- adult vs children
DISTINCT:
- Icons - Hat (trying to hide himself from everyone)
- Settings - School (vulnerable place), Home (place of safety), Woods (he is lost).
- Theme- Running away, vulnerable, leaving behind childish belongings
Camera & Mise-en-scene:
- medium close ups, long shots
- Tracking shots from left to right
- Panning shots from left to right
S-main character in mostly all shots
T- jump cuts on beats
O-Starts morning ends at night in the forest
P- Slows panning and tracking, speeds up with beat and build up
S-sped up bike shot, slow Mo on important character focused scenes.
Parallel editing, music fits the videos
Cyclical videos, starts in the fetal position- ends in fetal position.
