Kasabian-Fire GENRE RESEARCH

The video establishing shot is of a quiet high street until a

man walk into shot and puts down his bag. He then look at the

reflective mirror. It introduces two more characters too the

video. It also has non-diagetic sound of a man talking. The

background voice stops and then the music video breaks in.

pages of music blow across the pavement as the man begins

to sing at the window. All of the characters are walking as

tracking shots follow them. They eventually end up at a bank

THE OPENING

The video then switches to a CCTV camera affect as the men

begin to rob the bank. The CCTV is in black and white. They

make everyone move and force the cashier to put money into

the bag. It suddenly changes to colour as the cashier presses

the alarm discretely. The odd thing about this is that the guns

that they are using are guitar's and the money is pages of

music. They continue to rob the store until the chorus ends. It

then goes back to the man singing into the window. He

continues to sing until the chorus starts for the second time.

CHORUS

A bunch of black guitars began to get picked up whilst they

are still robbing the bank. The people that are picking up the

black guitars are revealed to be the police. The police shots

are in colour yet the bands bank robbery is all in black and

white. This is an example of an parallel editing. A long shot of

the bank shows the police arrive. The robbers are alerted and

series of quick shots show the robber jump the bank desk.

Once the police are in the bank the robber are forced out the

back door. The colour suddenly changes back to normal. As

the robber run away from the bank through some alleyways.

One robber runs off whilst the two of them push a shopping

trolley with there injured friend. They run for the getaway car

but then realise that the driver is dead. Another robber is shot

and the two remaining robbers hide behind the van.

CONTINUED

Police are covering the area. One robber runs for cover whilst

the other shoots the police with his guitar gun. The other

robber make a run for behind some crates. They begin to

realise that they are not going to get out if this situation and

the through the bag full of money into the air. The camera

fades back to the start when all four robbers are walking into

the bank.

ENDING

A few theories that are in this video. The video has close up of

the bands members to help promote the band and image. The

second theory in this video is that

ANDREW GOODWIN’S THEORY