The music video tells the story of two childhood friends spending a normal day together playing and going to each other's houses. It also shows them growing up instantly and being judged as adults for not having serious careers. The simple narrative reflects the linear way children can live in the present without worrying about the future or past. The editing is slow during verses and fast during the chorus, reflecting the simple lives of children.

1. Twenty One Pilots –
Stressed out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY

2. Narrative and Theme
 There is quite a simple narrative in this music video that emphasizes the
lyrics of the song.
 The video tells the story two childhood friends spending a normal day
together as they go to each others houses and play together. All technical
aspects of the music video help establish this narrative in the music video.
 The music video also shows a narrative of people growing up almost instantly
which is shown when the video cuts to them and their families in the white
background set. This part of the video shows them being judged for not
having a serious ‘normal’ career.
 The narrative is linerar in this music video which can represent that the the
characters of the children don’t have to think of the future or the past and
can live in present.
 Although the music video creates quite a normal and relatively simple
narrative it definitely helps to further promote the lyrics of the song.

3. Editing and Sound
 The editing in this music video is quite simple as it is slow paced during the
verses and fast paced during the chorus. This simplistic editing can signify
how the characters of the children have quite simple lives as they don’t have
to worry about things that adults do.
 As the chorus starts the editing mostly syncs up with the beat of the song.
This helps make the song and the video seem part of each other which helps
to promote the ideas that the song is putting across.
 There isn’t that much diegetic sound in this music video other than when the
music stops and the two people in the music video do an elaborate
handshake. The diegetic sound along with the handshake helps to promote
the idea that they are children as a secret handshake is quite a childish thing
to do.

4. Mise-En-Scene
 The Mise-En-Scene in this music video plays a big part in linking the song’s
lyrics to the music video.
 The setting of most of the music video is in suburban America which is shown
instantly whilst the singer is riding the big wheel. It is also shown whilst they
are in the houses as there is quite old furniture and a family environment.
 The lighting in the video was quite effective in setting the suburban scene,
especially in the house as the lighting is warm and quite neutral. This helps
create the feeling that the children characters are secure and don’t have to
worry which is contrasted when it cuts to the white and high key lit setting as
the two band members are then adults and are in a harsher environment
where they are more visible and under scrutiny.
 The costumes of both the band members are a contrast the characters they
are playing as the clothes aren’t what a child would wear which shows how
this is them looking back on their childhood as adults.

5. Camera
 The camera movement in this music video is quite unstable and are
nearly all handheld shots. The shots in the white setting are a lot
more stable and are tripod shots.
 The instability in the shots when they are children connotes how they
are able to be unstable and can do what they are free to do what they
want as children. The stable shots when they are adults represent how
they are expected to be stable as adults and cannot do what they
want if it is going to disrupt that.
 The tracking shots as they are on the big wheels signifies how they, as
children are free to move around and don’t have to worry as other
people are making sure they are safe and comfortable which is
contrasted by the very static shots as they are adults as they are again
expected to be stable.