Music video 'getting nowhere'

Here is the video 'Getting Nowhere' by Magnetic Man and John Legend.

The reason why i have chosen to talk about this video is because it is very creative like the other videos I have chosen, and it has an original theme and puts you in a trance. As well as this the video has a massive amount of symbolism, mostly dark and depicts the dark gritty side of London. One way it has been filmed well is the fact it was filmed on a council estate on East London as well as being filmed in the financial district. To me this shows the corruption and space between the poor and rich in London.

This music video is also filled with crazy random moments which still relate back to the theme it is trying to portray. On the whole i would describe it as surreal with a partial narrative if any.

Some of the themes in this are:

• hoodies
• BMX's
• crime
• youth corruption
• poor
• prostitutes
• drugs
• urbanism
• suffering
• greed

To me these tell a story about the London that most people don't know about.

The four main charecters, who are all on BMX's and have facemasks as well as a hoodies, is a great way of showing this culture and depicting what the video is showing (they are the illustration to the music). They are also shown as being there yet not taking action (silent witness). They are also shown as the modern day version of a highway man, this is shown perfectly at the point 2.59 where there is a two shot of both the biker and the highway man via mirror reflection so they are shown as one entity.

I also noticed the colour of each of the hoodies corresponds with its own theme, i say this because of when the hoodies are shown during key parts of the video.

White - connotes death
Black - connotes crime
Grey - connotes mystery
Red - connotes suffering