Throughout the video a grainy effect is used. As the video progresses the reason for this becomes clear, as large canvas boards are used to play clips in the video and act as a screen, which is why a canvas effect on the quality of the video is used. The video starts with three continuous establishing, long shots. There is no continuity editing during the video, and most of the shots are edited as cut on action shots, and as the pace of the background music to the song is fairly fast, to match this, the shot changes are quick and regular. The first shot of the performer in the video is 3 seconds in, where he is shot from an eye level mid-shot, although unusually, the performer is facing away from the camera. There is then several continuous extreme close-up shots of the instruments used in the song and video.
As the beat of the song increases pace slightly, the camera cuts to a medium close up of the artist/performer with no eye contact to the camera. This is a shot used regularly in the video. There is then a cut to a close up shot of the performers’ lower body, where the camera then stays at the same shot size as it travels up to the performers’ upper body/shoulders, which is an unusual video shot and is done without using a tilt.
After the use of another close up on a guitar, there is then the first extreme close up of the performer, where the body language and gesture of the performer having their eyes closed connotes a peaceful feeling of the performer, which is expressed through the lyrics and title of the song.
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