In the music video we have created it represents a boy heart broken by a girl and eventually understanding why he was left and thus decides to better himself in order to feel alive and to gain the chance of another love.
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In the lyrics it says "Sometimes you need to bleed to know that your alive and have a soul" which can be understood as in order to truly understand something you must understand the binary opposite of that first. In this case it is taken literal as before the boy could truly understand the relation between him and the girl he must first become heart broken and thus fully understanding the relationship. In this scene it is the beginning of the process of understanding as his heart has just been broken as shown by the girl's feet facing away from the feet of the boy and walking away.
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The Chorus of the song says "She's a tear in my heart, Im alive". The first part of the lyrics "She's a tear in my heart" can be better represented in the scene when the first chorus is sung as he is drowning in alcohol. This is a sign that she is the reason that something is tearing up inside of him thus saying "She's a tear in my heart"
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However on the second part "I'm alive" is better represented by the third time that the chorus is sung as it is a sign of realisation and that he is literally running through his memories to understand what has happened in the relationship and what to do in the future. By reliving his memories he gains the feeling of "alive" as he finally understands everything sifting through his memories. By being able to see something clearly can have the equivalent feeling of being alive or going through an ordeal.
Music and Visual
For our music video we have attempted to match the tempo of the music video to the beats of the sing. This is pretty evident as it is shown in a number of shots in the music video as we tried to match the cut speed of several shots to the beat such as when in the first 10 seconds of the video, the main focus is lead to the band performing the song but whenever the song pauses it switches the perspective towards the narrative of the music video. Another evidence of this is when the boy was drinking the cut speed of the music video matched with the beat of the drum and as it further progresses the cut speed becomes faster and overlaps the beat in order to intensify the effect and ending at a sudden stop.
On the bridge however is different as the song slowed down and thus the cuts doesn't match the beats of the song as much in order to show a "contemporary" moment in the music video where the flashback and current moment is being shown. The songs rhythm in the bridge is different from the rest of the song and thus we decided to make the cutting a little different from the rest of the video as well. The rhythm of the bridge is also continuous and less choppy compared to the rest of the song and thus we recreated that in our editing technique for this particular moment.
Intertextuality
For our music video we borrowed certain aspects from the original music video from TwentyOne Pilots such as the lyrics to make connections with the representation shown in the video and also the cut speed and mood.
One of the main thing we borrowed from the original is the stop motion zooms where there are certain scenes used in intervals to emphasise on it. In the original it was used to emphasise the pedestrians walking past however in our music video we adapted it into cutting straight into a zoomed shot to give the immediate effect instead of it gradually increasing like in the original which fitted us more as we ha more cuts than the original. Also this was used to match to the beat of the song as the cuts need to be frequent in order to so.
As shown in the bridge of our music video the boy was riding a trike and thus was borrowed from on of TwentyOne Pilots music video called Stressed Out. This was used to link the lead singer "Tyler" to the boy as in the original video for "Tear in My Heart" Tyler was the main lead just like the boy.
Voyeurism and Notion
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One of the most intimate scene in the music video is the scene where the boy and the girl is riding the trike together in the flashback in the bridge. This is basically a pan to the right but this can be shown for slow revelation to the rest of the scene or the message that is suppose to be shown.
Objectification
Objectification in our case is rather one sided to men as it is portrayed in the music video that men are at their most vulnerable after having their heart broken. This goes to show that men's heart are fickle as well and that women can manipulate men through the sense of affection that men gain from the women and thus leading to women controlling men's emotion. After a heartbreak men can feel that they have been misused or discarded and thus objectifying men.
The music video can be represented as journey through a man's life through his most volatile time.
Demand Of The Record Label
As the record label we decided to sign with was Fueled By Ramen, An indie and alternative record label, we have decided to name the band The Solution as indie and alternative music attracts to the hipster audience and thus naming our band The Solution. Hipsters appreciated abstractism and thus naming our band The Solution can be seen as cryptic and rather abstract.
Generic Characteristics
The band's genre of music consists of Indie Pop, Alternative Rap, Electro Pop but they all fit in the category in which hipsters would consider to tun into and thus the way that the band is represented is to the liking of that of hipsters such as the dress code and themes of the music video. They are represented through colour coordinating their clothes with vibrant colours and shades of black to bring out the colour from the vibrant colour.
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