Location
The whole music video is set in a city area. The colour blue is emphasised in this video, and the director has used the sky to highlight this. As the band are already quite well established, they don't appear in the video at all. The video just follows these two dancers around the city. In some ways this is conventional of indie rock as their videos often include the city. But this video is unconventional in the way it has no white/black canvas rooms for the band performances.
Clothing
As blue seems to be a concept of this video, the clothing of the two dancers are both mostly blue. What they wear is quite trendy and smart, similar to what current indie bands would wear. As the music video progresses the two dancers remove parts of their clothing at a time. This could be to show that they are really putting effort into their dance. This is conventional as most indie bands wear smart casual clothing at the moment, even though these two dancers aren't part of the band, they do represent band in this video, including the way they dress.
Cinematography
The cinematography for the video changes throughout the video. Most of the shots are handheld and it is as though someone is literally following these two dancers around the city. The handheld camera also suggest that the video is cheaply made which implies the band's 'indie' elements. The cinematography is also used to highlight the dance moves, by focusing on there limbs that are doing most of the work. As there are no shots of the bands whatsoever they have not followed the conventions of a typical indie rock video.
Editing
The music video is edited in a disjunctive style, it mostly doesn't cut to the beat of the music. The band have already established themselves so they can do this. The band also doesn't appear the music video at all and the video has nothing to do with the lyrics. This is unconventional as usually indie rock videos has amplified editing where they try to expand on the meaning of the lyrics.
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