Codes And Convention of a Chosen Music Video - Alex Clare 'Too Close'

Mise-En-Scene
The mise-en-scene of this music video is that it is based in an abandoned warehouse, this shows that the song is either a quite sad song as the colours and backgrounds are dull or the song is about someone close to the artist. The dark colours in the video represent sadness and that death is either present or has occured.

Backgound of the song
The song was written by Alex Clare in the memory of his late friend Amy Winehouse, the song was written after the death of Amy Winehouse, in her rememberance, as she had passed away from a drug overdose, which made him realise what he had lost.

Narrative
The narrative of the song shows two samari's fighting with wooden swords. With the samari's fighting it has to have one of them come out on top which it does, this represents the fight that Amy Winehouse was having with drugs. With one samari having to win it shows that the drugs came out on top and took Amy Winehouse's life, this is represented in the music video.

Camera Work
The camera work in the music video has a lot of long shots to show the pair fighting, but when there are close ups it is of one of the samari's getting struck with a sowrd. There are more close up of Alex Clares face this is to show the sadness he has for his late friend. With the close ups on Alex Clare they come around when it he is talking about 'quitting' this is showing that he doesn't want the same to happen to him that happened to Amy Winehouse.