- Images of shooting, shooting the choir and the guy at the beginning
- Cars on fire
- Corruption of America
- Protests and police violence
- Money and religion seem to be themes
- Youth and youth culture, children dancing
- Gives the sense that it is all one shot, the cuts are all hidden, not many obvious cuts
- In usual music videos you have pace cutting, cutting the footage to the beat of the music, which does not happen here
- Hand-written, lower case, impersonal like a letter, title card of the title of the song “this is America” reminds us of American teen movies
- Background of title card of black and writing is white, which could be significant
- Very American dream style, which is very much a white privilege concept
- Starts off in a warehouse, quite urban and plain, mysterious and has multiple uses, quite dirty, working class usually uses them
- Red chair and guitar lone on the set
- Handheld footage and we track movement towards the chair with the focus on man walking to the chair
- Quite gospel style of music at the start, calm atmosphere
- Wearing civil war trousers, no top, showing his skin colour, very formal trousers
- Guitarist now has bag over his head, makes him look like a hostage, main guy is holding a gun and shoots him in the head, resembles shooters/terrorists
- Reference to Jim Crow when he dances over and his style of dancing
- On the gun shot the music changes, gives the corruption vibe when wiping gun with red cloth, could resemble violence, death, blood, but also republican because of the colour red
- Some of his dancing makes him look almost zombie like
- Wide tracking shot following his movements as he moves
- Goes back to Gospel style music, shots of everyone praying then he comes in with a machine gun, referencing a church massacre in Cholsten, 10 were shot 9 died, so there were 10 in this shot dancing and then shot at, was done by a white supremacist so a racist issue in 2015
- Very smiley with him and the dancers, seems quite fake, but behind them there seems to be riots and danger and violence
- When he starts talking about his cellphone, it pans up to a shot of 4 kids all still on their phones, referencing this asocial world
- In background there is a man dressed in all black on a white horse next to a police car, referencing the KKK
- Silence when he raises his hands in a gun and zooms into a close up, as he lights a cigarette and walks out of the shot
- Pans up to him walking over to the car, the guy playing the guitar at the start is back with the hostage bag still over his head, scissor is sitting on a car as the camera moves backwards to get a wide shot, reference to other artists
- He gets up and dances on the cars, which could reference the police pulling over black people quite a lot and was violent towards them
- Running through the dark corridor and the only thing you can see are the whites of his eyes, references the time a black man was running from white supremacists and the only thing you could see was the whites of his eyes
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