Rudimental 'Waiting All Night' Analysis (J.P)

Audience -

There is a wide audience range for this video due to the song being in the charts and the video containing adults, but the song is mainly for teenagers. I would say that the video is mainly for males though as it contains a group of men messing around, participating in quite a dangerous hobby.

Genre -

Drum and base style music.

Narrative -

There is a very strong narrative throughout the music video, there is a very emotional and hard hitting story with in it. There is no shots of any of the band members throughout, so it is just a narrative.

The music video starts off with a group of mates messing around on their BMX bikes. You can see them weaving in and out of traffic, causing some drivers to beep at them, making you feel that they are being a bit irresponsible and dangerous.  Then, as the group of men cycle through an alley way, you see a man riding and overtaking his friend, exiting the alley way in to the path of an oncoming lorry. You then see him crash into the vehicle and then disappear out of sight. The video then pauses with a blank screen and cuts to shots of the group of men waiting around in a hospital, this is when the music begins, this is also when you see what damage has been caused after the man was hit by a lorry, unfortunately, he loses his leg. You then see his time that he spends in hospital, captured on camera in a home movie styled video, using amateur filming techniques, this carries on through the whole video, documenting his recovery and his ambition to be able to ride again.

Representation -

The video represents a close knit friendship group who have found each other through the same love and passion for riding and doing tricks. They all pull together to help their close friend get strong enough to fulfil his dream of riding again after losing a limb in the nasty accident. There is also a moral to the story, to always appreciate what you have, because others are not always as fortunate. In the video, you can see how the man changes after losing his leg, he becomes depressed as he watches his friends perfect tricks as he sits on the sidelines.

The video contains normal, down to earth people who are not represented as rich and full of themselves, they are represented as clear enthusiasts of their hobby, this is clear through out as they have lots of BMX clothing and props, such as home made ramps and bike parts.

Institution -

Rudimental are a British electronic music quartet who are signed to Asylum Records. The band consists of songwriters Piers Agget, Kesi Dryden, Amir Amor and DJ Locksmith.

Analysis -

There is a mise en scene that represents a down to earthj vibe through out, this is shown with all the shots of them biking everywhere, manmade ramps, houses that are not posh and plush, the element of smoking and wearing plain, unbranded clothing which shows that they are not rich. The video also seems to be set in suburban California or in America somewhere, as there are glimpses of palm trees, clear skys and lovely calm beaches.

Through out the video, there is an amature filming technique used so that the music video takes on a 'hoe video' type of feel to it., so there is shakey filming, sharp panning and blurry zooming in. At the beginning of the film, the camera is mostly focused on the bikers legs in action as they cycle through the traffic, this is a kind of foregrounding, as the main character loses his leg. There is also a lot of camera work that consists of the camera being attatched to one of the bikes to capture the fast speed and the tricks whilst the bikers are cycling over the ramps. This is what was being used when the accident was filmed and there was a lot of close ups involved of all the friends waiting in hospital, this was to show the worry and concern on their faces. There was then a medium shot used to show what damage was done to the mans leg, as there was a shot of him in bed with the half of his leg all bandaged up. During the mans recovery, there are a lot of group shots that involve the man in his wheelchair, he looks quite isolated as he is on a lower level compared to everyone else and he is surrounded by people doing his hobby that he can no longer do.

Most of the obvious editing, is jump cuts to different tricks that are being preformed on their bikes. Other than that, there are no special effects and no high tech editing techniques used as the whole music video is made to look amateurish.

At the beginning, before the music video starts, there are the sounds of the busy streets, car horns, the bikes grinding across poles and the men talking. Until the accident happens and then there is the sound of screeching tires and the sound of the bike and the man colliding with the lorry.