Coldplay Scientist

Coldplay Scientist

The Story behind Coldplay’s Scientist has a strong narrative based, with a story about a car crash. My own intersteption was like the title he was a scientist trying to figure and sort things out--what happened, what went wrong and through this he tries analyse he's behaviou rin every situlation in the relationship at a time but no one can take it apart beacuse it doesnt work that way or change the past--like the lyrics "Take me back to the start" for me why?--because Love is not something you can simply totally understand. It compicated, people show it, feel it, act it differently to the next person--"nobody said it could be easy" the impression we get from movies, Tv programmes, the media that love is beautiful, straight forward, everyone is happy but this music video almost gives a true reflection of what love is--the difficult, painful and the joy it can bring to two human beings

The director of the music video had a simply idea he wanted to do a tragic story which started with happiness and ends with happiness and the video is about rewinding to that happy ending.

 

Close ups and image motifs -The artists image reinforces someone from the alternative music genre. His clothes, hair and manorisms are all tha you would expect from a person from that genre. Also the use of many close ups and extreme close ups on the artists face reinforce that we should be looking at him, as he is the main feature in the video, and he is the famous artist in the video.

Mucis and visual relationships -The music is rather slow throughout, and the over cranking used in reverse is sometimes in time with the visuals on screen. For example when the car is rolling back up the hill from where it had just crashed down from, it seems to roll in time with the music playing at that time.

Lyrics and visual realationships -At the end of each chorus, the artist says the line, "I'm going back to the start". There is a relationship between this and the visuals, as the visuals are of the man in reverse, and so he is therefore going back to the start.

Techniques - The entire video is shot in reverse. This creates the narative fuzz, along with an enigma code throughout. The audience will be left anticipating what the out come of the video will be. This video will stand up to repeat viewing due to the enigma running throughout.