Music Video analysis - Coldplay - Strawberry Swing

This son "Strawberry Swing" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay and is the fifth and final single from the band's fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

This song video is a stop motion video. which features a man called Chris Martin laying on the ground against animated chalk drawings. Stop motion is a effect based on classic frame by frame animation, a rigid animation style that overall looks good. Stop motion introduces a realism aspect with a less modern style. This is  affect I can use in my music video, through the utility Istop Motion. 

The composition begins with Chris walking up to his house Once he sees that a woman is being held hostage by a giant squirrel, he turns into a superhero and attempts to save her. Along the way, Martin faces attacks from the squirrel and a giant fish in the ocean. When Martin finally gets to the squirrel's home, he rescues the lady by drawing a nut-shaped bomb that blows the squirrel up. The two then fly away and begin to kiss. The animation suddenly stops and Martin gets up off the chalk-colored floor in real speed and walks away.

This music video uses intertexual references to superman. Chris is flying round the city, like superman in the movies. The song is purely narrative, the animation is telling the story, I believe the story is about remembering a memory, and the video demonstrates the in a abstract manor. The video is not exactly a exact match for the lyrics although it does share the same theme.  

The video is mainly shot in mid shot as there is allot happening at once its trying to emphasis the story of the character.