Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On
The song that the Arctic Monkeys have produced for this music video is fast and upbeat therefore the music video has to resemble connotations of this. I think this is a great example of a music video for an indie band that produces upbeat music. The video is explaining a story, yet doesn't refract to the actual band as they dont feature in the video. This makes the video more intense, yet doesn't signfy who the band are. This would work well for a band that has recognised worldwide status like The Arctic Monkeys do, yet not for a smaller based band.
The video uses rapid cutaway editing to give the video a fast paced beat to resemble the piece of music itself. The camerawork is shaky and gives a rough edge to the film giving it that little bit extra to make it seem visibly more upbeat.

The video's storyline doesn't really connect directly to the lyrics of the song, yet is a powerful basis. It consists of the woman pictured above attempting to take her life by jumping off the building. Throwing her shoe off first a man picks it up and finds her hovering over the edge. Fast paced cuts and shaky camerawork increases when the drums kick in in the song. The lighting is grim and dark at the start of the video, symbolising the womans life due to her wanting to commit suicide. Zooms and tilt camera shots are used to add to the shaky camera work and to portray the emotion onto the woman willing to take her own life. Lots of close ups and extreme close ups are used to add to the emotion of the woman, as she is the main symbolism for the storyline. As she is saved she falls for the man and then we can see the lighting get bright and clear, the sun comes out when it was once grey clouds and colours are enhanced in her clothing, as seen below.

The video is clever in the way that the story is a continuim in that it's a never-ending cycle. As the woman doesn't get what she wants, the man, she resorts back to her grim life, therefore the lighting changes again to grim along with the weather. It then uses the same camera angles for the man on the woman as she runs up the stairs, adding to the sense of a deja-vu story. As she sprints for the edge it coincides with the added build up of the music as it increasingly gets louder creating a sense of recklessness. The woman stops to a halt at the edge timing the end of the drumming, as the music softens in the outro she then throws her shoe off again and the camera fades away.