The Scientist- Coldplay (Music Video Research)

The video is one massive reverse shot whereby it shows the main singer of the band 'Chris Martin' walking through different location backwards to time, although he is singing along to the lyrics in sync not in reverse. It starts off with the artist laying on and old tatty mattress, and then it shows him walking through a city in the night, and then after this he is walking through a basketball court; and then finally across a train track into a forest where the concept of the video is formulated and the music video storyline comes together. It turns out that he had been in a car crash with presumably his partner, she decided to take her seatbelt of for a few seconds in order to take her coat off; after this there was a lorry in the road and their car was steered off down a steep hill. Although I cannot understand why he would be walking through all these places, it must have been a way to distract himself from these sad emotions. The lyrics in the song literally translate to the main performer apologizing to this woman and saying how his life will be going in 'circles'. If I could apply a twist ending like that of this music video to our assignment it could put the whole video together and create an interesting narrative.