Matters At All - Kids In Glass Houses Analysis

This band is similar to my artist but differs from You Me At Six. This is a good example of comparing it to the other band and seeing what is different.

The storyline of this song is a more traditional take, one about finding love. It starts with an establishing shot of the band setting up for a performance. The video takes the conventional 'finding love' story and flips it with an interesting use of cinematography to allow the plot twist to make sense. The video is in two parts, the part from the protagonist; a woman who keeps walking into a man and has long emotional  contact with at various locations: A Park, Grocery Stall and Cafe. We see all this from her point of view and understand that the man is leading her on as she is to him, and it seems to have a classic relationship story.
However halfway through the video we discover that she is a lonely woman who is following this man around and obsessing with him after finding his picture on the floor and misinterpreting it as a picture of her and him instead of what it is: him and another woman (his girlfriend). Here the previous shots shown early on now are taken from different angles and show him with his girlfriend who at the start is out of the shot because of the way its filmed.
The lyrics of the song are linked closely with the plot, "Not that it matters at all" She loves him but she has imagined it and he doesn't love her because he is with his girlfriend and always has been from the start of the video.

Is it so hard to remember

When we go back to September

We were

We were like.

You're a throw back to forever

In your denim jeans and leather

Yes you

Yeah we were like.

All these things that you like to leave behind

All these things that you like to leave behind.

And if it matters at all

If it matters at all

You'll wait until your first time

You'll wait until there's something wrong

Cos you'll always be the one who says

Goodnight, Goodnight, (Goodnight).

I'm watching

I'm choking

As you took a draw back on a cinder

Hanging limp between your fingers

We were

Yeah we were like.

As you crashed out as a heartthrob

When you woke up in a day job

We were

Yeah we were like

We were like.

All these things that you like to leave behind

All these things that you like to leave behind.

And if it matters at all

If it matters at all

You'll wait until your first time

You'll wait until there's something wrong

Cos you'll always be the one who says

Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodnight.

And if it matters at all

If it matters at all

You'll wait until your first time

You'll wait until there's something wrong

If it matters at all

If it matters at all

You'll wait until your first time

You'll wait until there's something wrong

Cos you'll always be the one who says

Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodnight

Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodnight

Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodnight

Goodnight, Goodnight. 

These are certain shots from the video that interested me in how they developed story and were filmed.

The first shot is an establishing shot of where the band is playing, its a fairly gloomy set but it isnt as "heavy" or quirky as "You Me At Six's" video

 There are constant close ups/medium/long shots of the band playing throughout the video to maintain a brand image and have recognisable members. 

 This is the first shot we see of the protagonist you can clearly identify with her.

 This starts of her obsession with the man when she finds a picture, supposedly him and her.

In the first half of the video the first shot here is shown but on return you can see the man is clearly with his girlfriend and is trying to get the protagonist off his back.

 Again the use of camera angle allows us to believe it is just him and her in the first half of the video

 These close ups really allow the characters emotions to be shown in the Cafe scene, the first time we see it it is the protagonsists face not the face of the girlfriend that is shown above ^.

 The protagonists relation to them together in the Cafe shows her sadness and jealousy of the other woman I also love the shot of the coffee mug smashing in slow motion and I'm interested in applying something like that in my final project.

The final scene of the video is the confrontation of the man and his girlfriend and they realise that the woman is insane and ignore her and go on to be together. The photos she finds have the picture of the man and his girlfriend not her leaving her painfully heartbroken by something that never existed.

 "If it matters at all"