Own analysis of music video: The Only Exception by Paramore

The music video to The Only Exception by Paramore is done in a narrative and performance style, which is how I intend to do my music video. However in the video there is a stage performance, whereas mine will not feature a stage performance but just the artist miming the song.

From the first scene we can see the artist (lead singer) is leaving her boyfriend. The medium shot shows us her unhappiness, and this becomes apparent when she leaves a note to him saying "I'm sorry". SO we now can probably tell the narrative is going to be based around her trying to find her feet in her personal life as she is still young, doesn't know exactly what she wants yet.

Carrying on from that, the next scene includes who i can guess is her father. She gives him a hug. Maybe she is turning to her dad for guidance and support in this confusing time in her life. She sings the lyric "I'd never sing of love, If it does not exist". This could mean to say that she doesn't believe in love anymore since other lyrics suggest that her parents got a divorce or that her mother isn't around anymore. She saw her dads heart break and the same is happening to her. So to her love is the imaginary piece of insanity then never truly occurs.

Hayley (singer) then looks like she is stealing a a picture of what we assume is an old picture of her mom and dad together, she hides it from her dad as she walks into the next room. She cherishes it by sticking it on her mirror in her room.

A high angle shot pulls out from a close up to a long shot of Hayley lying on what looks like love letters possibly to her. This implies that she has lots of men after her, but all she wants is a proper man and clearly not any of the ones who have wrote letters.

As the video goes along, a speed dating style activity is occurring, we can see this from the long shot of the room she is in which is like a restaurant with men lining up to sit with her. From the close ups of her face we can see she is trying to make an effort but deep inside she is not enjoying it or that she doesn't see the point. And also she doesn't seem to realise that lots of men are desperate to talk to her but she refuses.

She walks through the next door to come to a wedding ceremony. In which Hayley is dressed in black whereas the rest of the congregation is in white. This could lead us to think shat she doesn't belong there and doesn't belong with or meant to be with anyone.

The next part of the video is mainly performance based and of Hayley in a night club. Slow-mo shots of her in the night club express her letting all her frustration out but jumping up and down in a night club trying to have fun. And it's here where she meets the guy she left on the sofa at the start of the video. Maybe she was so confused that didn't realised that this bloke is actually the one she is meant to be with. To be able to get accross the message that she is with the right man, They act out the speed dating scene again and Hayley looks like she is enjoying herself as she laughs with him.

A montage of shots that see her running through the different scenes from the video in reverse order so its as if she is going back on herself as she had an apifany this guy is the one. She walks into the room from the first shot to lay back down with her boyfriend. So this could then suggest the the whole video was just a realisation.