Kasabian-Fire GENRE RESEARCH

The video establishing shot is of a quiet high street until a

man walk into shot and puts down his bag. He then look at the

reflective mirror. It introduces two more characters too the

video. It also has non-diagetic sound of a man talking. The

background voice stops and then the music video breaks in.

pages of music blow across the pavement as the man begins

to sing at the window. All of the characters are walking as

tracking shots follow them. They eventually end up at a bank

THE OPENING

The video then switches to a CCTV camera affect as the men begin

to rob the bank. The CCTV is in black and white. They make

everyone move and force the cashier to put money into the bag. It

suddenly changes to colour as the cashier presses the alarm

discretely. The odd thing about this is that the guns that they are

using are guitar's and the money is pages of music. They continue

to rob the store unti l the chorus ends. It then goes back to the man

singing into the window. He continues to sing unti l the chorus starts

for the second time.

CHORUS

A bunch of black guitars began to get picked up whilst they are sti l l

robbing the bank. The people that are picking up the black guitars

are revealed to be the police. The police shots are in colour yet the

bands bank robbery is all in black and white. This is an example of

an parallel editing. A long shot of the bank shows the police arrive.

The robbers are aler ted and series of quick shots show the robber

jump the bank desk. Once the police are in the bank the robber are

forced out the back door. The colour suddenly changes back to

normal. As the robber run away from the bank through some

alleyways. One robber runs off whilst the two of them push a

shopping trolley with there injured friend. They run for the getaway

car but then realise that the driver is dead. Another robber is shot

and the two remaining robbers hide behind the van.

CONTINUED

Police are covering the area. One robber runs for cover whilst the

other shoots the police with his guitar gun. The other robber make a

run for behind some crates. They begin to realise that they are not

going to get out if this situation and the through the bag full of

money into the air. The camera fades back to the start when all four

robbers are walking into the bank.

ENDING

A few theories that are in this video. The video has close up of

the bands members to help promote the band and image. The

second theory in this video is that there is some link between

the lyric and what is going on in shot. There is no elements of

performance in this video which is odd for a alternative rock

video.

ANDREW GOODWIN’S THEORY