1. Goo Goo Dolls
Iris

2. Introduction
 The establishing shot is of a telescope, this
immediately related to one of Andrew
Goodwin’s key features. ‘There is frequently
references to the notion on looking’.

3. Performance based
 It becomes apparent quickly that this is primarily,
a performance based video with elements of
narrative as soon after the notion of looking it
jump cuts to the band.
This will also meet the
demands of the record
company by showing
images of the band.

4. Location
 The band are performing in a dark tunnel, lit by
only a few lights. This gives us the impression that
the song may be emotional and have
meaningful lyrics.

5. Meaning?
 One line in the song is ‘I don’t want the world to
see me, because I don’t think that they’d
understand’. I think this means that he is looking
at a girl through the Telescopes, but if anyone
saw him they wouldn’t understand.

6. Binoculars
 Another notion to looking.

7. Narrative
 The narrative side of the video shows a man in a
tower moving from telescope to telescope. It
appears he is watching a girl or someone he
loves. He then gets frustrated and moves to the
edge of the tower, citizens look up but he does
not jump.

8. Iris - Film
 In the music video the band is shown high up in
skyscrapers, watching the lives of people through
telescopes. Nicolas Cage is seen throughout the
video. This theme supposedly reflects on what
the angels do in the film ‘City of Angels’.
 There are also scenes from the film throughout
the video depicting scenes where the character
Seth Is falling in love and deciding whether or not
to give up being an angel

9. Ending
 At the end the lead singer walks away, this could
suggest that he is willing to give up everything to
be with the girl.