Deconstruction 3 Blur-country house

Irony as starts off with a zoom in to a block of flats to a group of men playing a board game and as the song begins their lives turn into board games, as if they are part of it. The lighting is dark suggesting they are bored and moody and this is supported by their body language.\













Whenever Damon Albarn sings the lyrics he uses has some sort of relevance to what is shown on the screen, for example “thought to himself whoops I’ve got a lot of money” at this point Keith Allen pulls the thinking pose trips and accidentally empties a case of cash on the floor. This shows the imaging to be in synchronise with the lyrics in the beginning of the video and is suggesting that life is like a game that everyone plays. This suggests that this video is amplificitive within Goodwin's theory.













What is sung is shown in the video through different props and short scenes which  emphasise that life is a game and with a close up of a opened door with the words win lose, suggests that different decisions lead to different outcomes, you win some you lose some. The lighting is still dark around the edges which emphasises that this isn’t reality as it doesn’t show the whole picture. Damon Albarn is repeatedly in the foreground singing with the game/story taking place behind him suggesting he is like the narrator or some sort of conscience figure.

























When the music stops and they go into some sort of harmony high pitched singing they borrowed an idea from queen where their heads are spinning around and they are positioned in a diamond shape, this sort of represents some sort of choir which again is synchronise with the music as it stopped and went into a high pitched harmony, showing the contrast between the different parts of the song visually and musically.