Jamie Thraves Case Study

All of Jamie's music videos that he constructs all have something in common, this being that they all tell a story within it. Jamie uses this technique to connect with the emotion of lyrics. Tom Odell's music video "Only Love" directed by Jamie is the most effective when it comes to connecting the lyrics with the music video. The music video is filmed in one take, it shows arguments building up throughout the song and shows large amounts of drama and emotion the whole way through.

Coldplay - The Scientist

This music video directed by Jamie Thraves, connects very deeply to the lyrics and explains what the song is about, through the video. The plot of this song is saying that he has screwed up but has no way of explaining how as it was against reason. However, he wanted to explain what he did with science and reasoning but be cant because his love doesn't work like that. As this person means everything to him, he wants to start over again, but the other person thinks that there should be something to explain it. Jamie creates the music video of the lead singer singing forward, whilst everything is going backwards. This is a very clever theory as it explains the meaning within the song of wanting to start again so he is going back in time, however his explanation is carrying on going. Throughout this music video it seems to look like he is running away, until the very end it shows that they have a car crash and the woman is very badly hurt and he is running to get help. The very end of the music video he carries on going backwards to when he is with her all happy like they were, starting their relationship again.