Heart in a Cage - The Strokes, video review/key features

Whilsit researching the alternative genre The Strokes is one of the bands famous for being in this genre.
The song is about a man who is in love with a woman but not being with her, he starts to feel claustrophobic in a large city as if it were a cage, stopping him finding her. All of his chances of seeing her are destroyed by their friends and people making fun of them.

The video grabbed me because of some of the ideas I have had for my video are similar with this one. I had the idea of doing the verse's of my song shot in monochrome, and when hes with his girlfriend switch to a more bright atmosphere. This video is filtered using monochrome and remains that way throughout giving the video a dirty grimy vibe, which is what I want to incorporate into my video. Also the protagonist in this video is alone within a constantly moving crowd with a zoom  that allows him to be seen but only the legs and feet of passers by, in my video I focus on the act of walking as my protagonist will be constantly walking. Its also clever as the othe members of the ban in this video are situated with famous american landmarks but are in open spaces, above the streets symbolysing that they are free. In my video I wanted the band to be seperate from the protagonist but playing to an audience that dont exist. Also the use of slow down and increase of speed in this video has influenced me to think about using this in my video.