Bastille- Pompeii video analysis

Genre and concept

Bastilles genre of music is not that easy to give an exact representation of a genre however if i were to pick, i would class it as under pop, or indie pop it follows all conventional and stereotypical pop songs sound however his voice adds a slight indieness to it. The video inst that clear to follow and is more telling a story of how someone feels in there everyday life this can be seen as the concept of the video, we see the artist performing and the artist also living an everyday life. If you look deeper into the concept the people that have black eyes could have had there innocence taken away from them somehow, in the song it sounds as if he is constantly trying to escape something, even if he 'closes his eyes' it could be that he is denying that this has happened to him and he wants to remain the same innocent person with an idealist view on the world, however at the end we see he had come to turns with it and he himself has black eyes. The song talks about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Mount Vesuvius is a volcano near the bay of Naples in Italy. which erupted years ago, the volcano buried the ancient city of Pompeii under a think layer of volcanic ash. and was hence abandoned, the black eyes could be a representation of the volcanic ash that got up with people, and he himself try’s to escape it.

Camera

A number of diffrent camera shots are used in this video, there is the use of of panning with the man running away , but there are also the likes of extreme long shots which help us see that he doesn't feel part of society and that he may not fit in. We have free hand shots to show an edge to what is happening 

the camera really just follows him and his every move but in a way that shows his worry etc. We also see the use POV when he sees the peoples black eyes.

In the second second screen shot we are faced with an emotionless faced man with a medium shot, this helps us realize he is un happy with the way things are, and that he doesn't know where his life is really going, this is below the text. this could relate to his sadness because of his loss (Pompeii) here you can see his eyes are still not black.

In this shit is huge now getting clear that it is a representation of the lost city of Pompeii, it has been abandoned with a lot of rubbish around.The town its self here looks like Detroit which really is a defeated old town with very few people living there now.

Mise en scene
The mise en scene in this video is very bland and dark up until the end, the clothes he is wearing are dark colored and pretty normal, he actually suits the environment around him and blends in with it, even though very little people are around, the area that it has been filmed is very empty and run down as you can see in the above picture

Editing
the editing in this video is quite slow, with a lot of jump shots and random pictures of still life, there is no serious editing involved in the video but at the begging there is a hint where we can see a bit of blureed fading in the horizon to ring out the man acting in the video who also happens to be the artist.