Research into professionally made music videos: Jamie T - Zombie

 

Jamie T's song 'Zombie' is set in a pretty normal pub as the band play the song to a small group of regular pub- goers,  the song continues throughout the video the band slowly turn into zombies, with various limbs falling off, blood everywhere but the audience in the pub are oblivious to this. The video is portrayed as a live performance to the people in the pub but it actually isn't. The narrative corresponds to the song lyrics because they sing about zombies as they slowly turn into them, themselves.
There are 4 main characters -the band members, 2 men and 1 woman, they are known as 'Jamie T and the Pacemakers' there are also 3-4 drinkers listening and watching the band occasionally.  There is no other dialogue besides the singing and no credits either, this may be because the video isn't really a story but a scene from a pub, also perhaps because the band members are not human for most of the video so would have limited dialogue and credits. There is only 1 location, the pub it is set in. The whole video cuts to the band then to the audience, as slowly they turn into zombies. It has various shots, close up and long to suggest the drinkers in the pub are not fazed by the band transforming into zombies and also how the singers change. The video is basically about a guy who feels like a zombie.

This is the shot of what seems like a worker at the pub, as a guitarist's arm is pulled off, blood squirts on the floor, the cleaner doesn't seem bothered  so just wipes it up looking slightly sheepish as she does it.



 






The same shot is used at the start and at the end of the video. In the first one picture, the band are normal but then in the last one (below) they are zombies.