There is a cut then the camera is on the two people on the floor, it is a bird’s eye view the camera is gradually moving in on them. Then there is a close up on the crashed car, I think this is done to let the reader know that their relationship was a car crash, this is also a metaphor for Adele’s relationship.
A birds eye view is then on the shadows of the two people lying on the floor, yet again another blur accurse here. I think that the two people lying on the floor represents Adele’s relationship. It shows how the relationship started with the man being kind to the woman but as we go through the video the relationship between the both of them changes and they seem to be getting nowhere.
Towards the end of the video we see the woman with another ‘man’ then giving what I think is a letter to the man lying on the floor, saying she wants to finish. I think this represents Adele’s relationship and if she carries on braking up and getting back with him it will end up in a crash.
The girl lying on the floor has only one shoe on, I think this is purposely done because Adele feels trapped in the relationship, and because ‘she only has one shoe on’ she can’t run away from him. But personally I think she doesn’t actually want to run away.
When Adele gets out of the car and watches the car crash victims I think what she is trying to tell us is that she is watching her own relationship from the outside. We see people trying to revive the car crash victims, I think this resembles how she tries to keep her relationship alive but the relationship is dead and by trying to keep it alive she is getting nowhere hence the lyrics “should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements even if it leads nowhere.”
When the car crash victims get revived they stay alive for a bit but in the end no one comes back to revive them so metaphorically this means their relationship is dead for good.
Adele is not wearing anything glamorous she is just wearing normal clothes you could describe her as ‘Londoner’ in her dress sense. I think she doesn’t dress up because she is not selling herself or her image I think she just enjoys singing her songs.
The narrative in this video is the car-crash relationship; the video follows the typical codes and conventions of a pop genre. There is no iconography; I think this video was cheaply made out in America to save money and also to get a wider target audients. I think the target audients is for older people because it’s a sad song appealing to people who have had experience in a relationship like this. The Mise-en-sene is not in a typical studio I think its ether in a set or is actually set in a park. There are no bright colours it’s mostly brown and black, with the dead leaves on the ground this all resembles misery. The most editing used is the blur and also a bird’s eye camera angle is widely used.
