Nickelback- Lullaby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjiOn5s8s8 


This music video by Nickelback is a narrative music video with also parts of it being performance. The lyrics of the song match the visuals of the video. The dark lighting at the beginning of the video reflects the situation of the man's wife going into labour and the lighting makes it more dramatic and serious. The close up of the man and the wife holding hands represents their love for each other and how the husband is there for the wife as she is in labour and in a lot of pain. There is also a close up of the women's face which captures her emotion and pain that she is going through and makes the viewers imagine what pain 
she is going through. 

The medium shot of wife looking at husband before she dies, the emotion on her face presented to the viewers through the medium shot shows that she loves him and the look also says look after our baby. 

A long shot is used when the husband is sitting outside the delivery room while the doctors and nurses attend to his wife, the long shot of the man sitting on his own emphasises his isolation and loneliness without his wife. 

The lead singer of Nickelback sings "stop thinking about the easy way out" as he is handed the baby, which represents how he shouldn't give up as he has a baby to look after now not just himself, also it represents how his wife would have wanted him to look after the baby and not give up on himself or the baby. 

There is also a medium shot of the husband looking at a picture of his wife, clearly showing the emotion as he looks at the picture. The emotion on his face shows how he is going to miss her and that each day is going to be a struggle without her and it also shows that he really loved her and still loves her. 

At the end of the video there is a long shot of the man and the baby sitting on the floor with bright lighting, the bright lighting shows how different the situation is compared to what the situation was like at the beginning of the video. The situation/mood changed to a lot happier since the man decided to keep the baby and not give it up for adoption. The lighting reflects this.