first deconstruction The verve-Bittersweet symphony

The lighting in this shot is quite dull and sets some sort of negative atmosphere. The camera movement itself is hand held camera to contribute to the verisimilitude as it looks like Richard Ashcroft is walking down a street staring at the camera as if it’s a person walking backwards. There is no editing at this point and is just 1 long take of him walking down a street. People walk past the screen and he just walks into him, they enter the frame and leave the frame however Richard Ashcroft stays centrally framed, this could suggest a story that in your life people come and go, however you just have to take control of your own life.

However at some points it cuts to point of view shots as to what he is looking at down the street and the people he is looking at.

At this point it’s the first cut and is in the point of view of Richard Ashcroft to show the audience what he can see. However after this point it’s a short cut and then cuts back to Richard Ashcroft walking down the street. Again at this point the lighting is still the same therefore the atmosphere it sets is still the same as it was in the beginning. When it does cut back to Richard Ashcroft being centrally framed match on action has been used to show the women walking by and then watching him just walking straight into them both.

Every now and then it cuts to behind Richard Ashcroft to let the audience know what’s coming up and is like a representative of his life. 

It often cuts to a close up of a particular part of the body whether it is his feet or his face or someone else’s face, this shows a bit closer as to what is happening and in this case shows him singing the song, him tripping and walking into the buggy and walking into the women before she falls over, so it focus’ on the action that takes place at that point. It also continually cuts away from his face which in this case could be the master shot and onto his feet suggesting that he is always just going to keep walking without stopping.