Wildfire- Seafret

This video for "Wildfire" by Seafret i feel is incredibly clever in the way that it is incredibly simple, yet carries a strong message and links well with the song. The use of 3 primary camera angles, one location and the focus on the people's faces and the questions rather than their responses to the questions i though was very powerful as it links to what the experiment in the video was based around; expression. It ties with the song as it links with the idea of love spreading and growing like "wildfire", which is displayed in the video by the opening text talking about the previous experiment where two of the subjects were married 6 months after they took part. Also shown is a clever use of shot length towards the end during the 4 minutes that they spend staring at each other. It speeds up was each of the subjects starts to smile or change expression, also matching the beat behind the song.

This is one of my favourite music video's that I have seen recently, mainly due to its simplicity. But even with this simple set up with very few camera angles, it still creates a very powerful emotion that can be felt by everyone; love and compassion. The video creates this image of how trivial the modern perception of how to fall in love is and shows that all you need is to look into someone's eyes for a few minutes. It links with a similar video where immigrants and refugees living in England were made to look into the eyes of a person from a completely different country, background, identity to see if they could relate closer even though they often couldn't communicate very well. Yet, through this eye contact for a few minutes, they form a very strong connection; even bringing some to tears. I think an important thing that this video does is that when we are introduced to all the participants; even we, the audience, don't know where these people are from or their names. This puts us in the same position as the people taking part in this video, showing us that even though we are all from different places, walks of life; we are all still human.