Bastille-Bad Blood

Within the music video there are several locations, which we have chosen to do when creating
our music video, both indoors and outdoors. The indoor locations are of large buildings,
abandoned buildings, a caf and an arcade, showing that everyday locations can be used
effectively and emotively when creating a music video. The outdoor locations are completely
different/opposite with the repetitions of streets, roads and a dessert. I think this is used to
confuse the audience, on where the lead singer is going, due to the audience not having any
clues. Most indie bands use their main lead singer to be in music videos to reassure the
audience of the band being the same; however this is Bastilles debut music video suggesting
that the audience need to put a name to a face.

Mise en scene: Dan Smith, who is the lead singer of the band, is also the male lead in the music
video. Is wearing dark clothes to match the narrative that something is taking over the world,
and matching the dark self identity matches the mysterious character. The makeup is natural;
however at the end of the music video, the character has big black eyes suggesting that he has
been taken over. Emphasising that the music video, is a sequel to a pervious video by the band.
The leather jacket also seems to have connotations of indie bands, the frequent shot of the lad
singer wearing a leather jacket reinforces the ideology of the iconic indie genre.





The lighting is used emotively in this music video, ambient lighting is used to identify that
character is the same, but also the lighting is natural from the machines in the arcade and the
street lamps which are aspects of normal location shooting. The low key lighting
The techniques of the camera movements/shots emphasises the whole style of Bastille. As
Pompeii is the bands debut music video the actor/main singer is located in the middle of the
frame to show who the male lead. The variety of shots allows the audience to seen the
locations, however the movements seem to follow the male lead. The extreme long shot of the
city skyscrapers emphasises the difference between Pompeii and a new city or even the
comparison that some sort of technology is affecting the world we live in and that it is similar to
Pompeii but different. There are lots of high angles, low angles shots, wide shots, overhead
shots and zooms. At the start of the video the zoom is used to make the male lead mysterious
early on in the video. The wide shots are used to show the different locations. Tracking shots are
used in most music videos, the overhead shots allow the audience to experience what he is
seeing, its like a rabbit in the head lights.






The editing is slower than other music videos; this is due to the beat of the music which editors
follow. However at times the editing does quicken up this is to make the audience feel more
disorientated, it doesnt make a great different to the speed of music video. There are lots of
fades used from black to the next scene, these could suggest that there making a difference
like something is with the male lead.