The music video for "Shot at the Night" by The Killers follows pop music video conventions. It tells a "boy meets girl" story where the male lead rescues the lonely female character from her job as a hotel maid. When they meet, her dull clothes and tired body language change to vibrant colors and happiness. She rebels against her previous role by joining him on a motorcycle and participating in karaoke. Both characters conform to typical representations in pop music with the male looking masculine in a suit and motorcycle and the female going from distressed to happily swept away.

1. The Killers – Shot at the night
In The KillersmusicvideoforShotAtThe Night,intermsof character, there is a female character
whocompletelymatchesthe characterconventionsforfemalerepresentationinthe genre of pop.
She matchesthisstereotype asshe issimilartothat of a ‘damsel indistress’she isshowntobe
lonelyinthe videoasshe glanceslonginglyoverpeoplekissinginthe hotel she worksat.
She is showntobe at her jobas a maid whichcarries
connotationsof females.Inrelationtothisshe is
fashioningdull colours,herbodylanguage isstrained
and suggestsshe istiredat whatshe isdoing,again,
atypical of pop musicvideos asgirlsare mostlyshown
as sexual inpop.The musicvideoisalsoconforming
to the conventionsof apop videowiththe ‘boy
meetsgirl’storylinebeingasignificantfactorinthe
change in moodforthe video towardsthe middle tothe end.Asthe female characterproperly
meetswiththe male character,hercoloursbecome vibrant,she isshowntobe havingmake up
appliedjuxtaposingwhatshe waswearinginpreviousshots.She wearsayellowdressandpink
heels, whichsuggestshappiness andcomfort.Whenshe ‘escapes’herjob,she beginstorebel
againstwhatshe hadpreviouslybeendoingoncamera,forexample she getsonthe male’s
motorbike,takespartinkaraoke andsmilesa
lotmore,her bodylanguage andfacial
expressionssuggestsshe ishappy.Intermsof
the male representationinthe video, itisagain
conformingtopopmusic videos,he comes
alongand ‘sweepsheroff herfeet’and
supposedlychangesherlife intosomething
where she doesn’thave tobe a maidin a hotel
anymore. He alsois costumedinquite amasculine mannerwithhisshirtandsuitjacketonand he is
drivingamotorbike too, whichhave connotationsof masculinity.
The narrative to the videoisinchronological orderandisclearlystructured,withsmall snippets of
narrative enigmawhere there are shotsof the nightskyand the leadsingerof the bandperforming.
Thisvideooverall isanarrative pairedwithperformance fromthe leadsinger,BrandonFlowers.
Flowersistypical of the popgenre as he lookslike a‘badboy’ he iswearinga leatherjacketandhis
hair slickedback,quite aconventional styleinpopmusictoday.