The song lyrics describe a man reflecting on his life as he is dying, wondering if anyone will care after his heart stops beating and lungs stop breathing. The music video represents this through scenes of the man falling to the floor while street lights flicker, then flashes of his criminal past including assaulting an elderly man. As he lies dying, his eyes move as if remembering his life, rising up at the end possibly to heaven's door as he comes to terms with the harm he has caused others. The video uses lighting and camera angles to connect the dark and lonely lyrics to the man's troubled life of crime leading to his death.

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End Credits

2. • The song is based around death
• The lyrics telling me this , when the line ‘When the blood dries in my veins
and my, heart feels no more pain I know, I'll be on my way to heaven's door’
is featured. This gives me a clear understanding that the video will be based
around the idea of dying or an accident.
• ‘I'll be on my way to heaven's door’ this gives the audience the idea that the
song is much more than death, it talks about the after life.
• ‘I know when I knock, I'll be hoping I don't drop to a place where I will rise,
like before’ This line is referring to hell, building a picture in your mind that
the video will have something to do with a troubled life and sins, as they are
worried about not getting into hell.
• ‘When my mind stops thinking and my eyes stop blinking, I hope…
Somebody's there’ ‘When my heart stops beating and my lungs stop
breathing In air... I hope somebody cares’ Automatically you understand that
the character/signer is lonely and has no one there for him (family and
friends etc) this makes you question the reasons why he has lots all his
friends and family? Maybe due to his crminal lifestyle?
• So from the lyrics you automatically create a picture in your mind of a world
of crime, leading to death.
• After watching the video you come to the realisation that the lyrics connate
the video perfectly.

3. • At the beginning of the music video the opening scene is very dark, this
goes with the sound of the guitar strumming that sounds very slow and sad.
You then notice a few blurred dots that are street lights that are flickering to
the beat of the music- this creates a very good effect.
• As the music is very slow during the intro the next visual is a man (the main
character of the video) is shown falling to the floor, however it has been
slowed down. Therefore the intro has a big connate to the music video,
everything is in sync and very well thought through.
• From this only you can tell that the main storyline of the video will link the
the lyrics perfectly. It will be a sad and meaningful video, due to the use of
lights and dark setting.
• The lights might even be used as a metaphor, ‘the light’ which some believe
you see before death? Also the fact the lights stop flickering when the man
hits the floor may mean that he is dead and everything becomes more
surreal.
Flickering lights
Strong, clear and more
prominent lighting occurs

4. You realise that he is looking back on
his life

5. Rising up to ‘heaven’s door’ as he
comes to terms with all the bad
he’s done? Or maybe he
understands this is his time to
leave after he’s damaged so many
other people’s lives?
As the character is lying on the floor he
is shown moving his eyes around, as if
he is looking back on the different
things that have happened in his life
and the are all laying out in his mind.
These three pictures are taken from the music video, the main character know as ‘Plan B’ is reflecting on his life and all
the things that he’s done. From these imagines you can tell he lives/lived a life of crime leaving him to repeatedly sing the
lyrics ‘When my heart stops beating and my lungs stop breathing In air... I hope somebody cares’ and ‘I know when I
knock, I'll be hoping I don't drop to a place where I will rise, like before’.
The camera angle of this image is a
close up, exactly the same as the ones
that simultaneously show of Plan B.
This maybe showing that even though
he put the elderly man in hospital, they
are both the same, human. Maybe he
I have cropped the image slightly, however the original image
featured in the video is a mid shot. I feel this has been used to
allow the viewer to see the intensity and pain in the victims face.
This shows the character in the video to be a more vicious
character. Contrasting completely with the vulnerable person we
see flash backs of laying on the road, alone. And the person singing

6. ‘When my mind stops thinking and my eyes stop blinking, I know…. at the end’
-this is the last verse sung whilst the image above is displayed. The character is
floating up into ‘heaven’? Possibly. Meanwhile majorly effecting and engaging
the audience. And all the hidden meanings of death you are left to think about
soon become clear.