- music doesn't start until 0:07, sound of wind blowing during silence of music
- nighttime, however a spooky nighttime because of wind and dark clouds with slight blue tint, adding cold atmosphere
- camera flying through CGI buildings, dark atmosphere, dark clouds in the sky, representative of singer's dark feelings, reflects mood of song
- city sounds faint during music, sound of police sirens
- camera flies closer to a window of a run down apartment building that is open with the curtains flapping in the wind, shows which and what type of house the person we're focusing on lives in
- camera goes into window and goes still, wide shot of bedroom and a woman asleep in the bed
- cuts to the same woman asleep and falling from a building, the tone of colour of film is very dark and has hints of blue, making it look cold/death like, matching to the name of the song
- different angles of woman sleeping in bed again, dutch angles, makes it uncomfortable/sense of danger
- by cross cutting between the falling and the bed it shows the woman is possibly dreaming, there is an apparent theory that if we have a dream where we're falling and falling it's because our body thinks we are dying and when we wake up before hitting the ground our body thinks we are dead so wakes us up to make sure
- woman keeps struggling during her sleep, showing discomfort, same as when someone has a nightmare, is evidently scared
- the cuts get shorter between the two scenes, matching the build up of instruments and sound of the song
- after the lyrics "back home" the camera flies back out of the room and does a wide establishing shot of building, but we can see other people in the windows, and then the camera quickly zooms into another window of a band
- we see the band of the song playing in the room on beat of chorus starting
- woman opens her eyes, matching the lyrics "wake me up inside"
- woman walks towards window, almost ghost like and as if she is dead or sleepwalking
- cutting between the two scenes, the band playing and the woman, the woman sings the woman's lines in the song, showing she is the main singer of the band and song
- band is wearing black dark clothes, woman is wearing a white silk night dress with white curtains, which would usually be shown as purity, but this could be resembling ghosts and death because the curtains look ghostly while flapping in the wind
- camera does swirling motions when focusing on the woman in the room
- every time between the verses and choruses and bridge there is the sound of wind
- woman starts walking at edge of building, with wide angles and one below angle shot while she walks around corner of building confidently, almost dreamily but while looking sad but smiling, her hair and dress are flowing in the wind, making her seem like a supernatural being, separate from the world as she walks past other people's windows
- walks past a window of a colourful party, contrasts to theme of song and atmosphere of music video, emphasises the darkness of song and how separate this woman is, reflects conflict and isolation in her head
- people at party are wearing creepy masks however, which adds and brings back the spooky nature of the video
- could represent the masks people wear and the fake smiles people have to put on for other people while feeling awful inside, shown further when one of the people takes off the mask and shows running mascara down their face
- band shown only during the chorus when they actually sing in the song, not shown as part of the storyline or meaning, but we see them aggressively playing the music
- we see her walk past a window from inside the room, her figure is faint and glowing slightly with a white rim around her, shows she is possibly a ghost, reflecting and visually showing the song title and lyrics of chorus
- camera does moving dutch angles when showing the band and her as she walks and climbs up building
- she is climbing up to the room that the band are playing in
- she stays outside the room on the edge of the building, but leans against the different windows, does this very elegantly, very ghost like, the band cannot see her, matching lyrics "frozen inside without your touch, without your love", possibly showing she is separate and being kept from love
- she stays outside the room for a while during the bridge, with close ups of her face and the odd wide shot so we can see the band in the windows
- shot from inside room, as is we are looking through window to her and see reflection of member of the band looking at her sadly as she looks inside lovingly and longingly
- she falls as he starts singing after opening the window and is going to get her
- he looks very annoyed with himself, almost reflecting lyrics "all of this time, I can't believe I couldn't see, kept in the dark but you were there in front of me", showing he didn't see her in the window as did no-one else as she walked past
- he is lead singer of the guy band, with her being lead singer of whole band
- he drops her and screams/chants "I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside", showing anger of him dropping her, music dies out once she reaches the bottom, showing she has died too
- camera follows her from below her as she falls to ground, we don't see her reach the bottom, but there is then a wide shot of him sitting on edge of building, he goes back inside the room with the band, all of them looking sad
- sound of wind and sirens play again at the end showing life is carrying on as normal for everyone else
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