Research - Killswitch Engage - The Arms of Sorrow - Metalcore

The style of this music video is part narrative and part performance as there it a story to the video and has scenes of the band performing, it is also socially conscious as there it a meaning to the lyrics and story. The story is about a man who is depression; the video shows a suited man falling from a building, past people who live or work in the building. The suit portrays a normal life, the bag of groceries he is holding backs this up (living a normal life at first glance.) In my opinion, the falling resembles his falling deeper into depression and not actual suicide, as some may think, at the very end he is shown falling to a pool (the pool resembles the bottom, the worst point of the depression) and climbing out, which is important and sends the message that you can get up from the bottom, meaning you can beat depression. The camera mainly focuses on the narrative, leaving the band with little screen time (in this screen time it mostly focuses on the lead singer) who are wearing dark clothes and are in a dark room, which shows that even when they are being shown you aren't really meant to be focusing on them, these scenes are in normal motion, which unlike the rest of the video is in slow motion - this is done for a few reasons: to signal the transition between reality and what isn't real, to make things that at normal speed (girl blowing bubbles) would be boring look cool and mesmerising and lastly, to make the audience focus on the man's facial expressions. There are a few key codes and conventions in the video, the main one being the band - them performing in dark clothes, electric guitar, drums, long hair ect - things you would expect from a metal video.