1. The Scientist Analysis
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2. Editing
The stage in the film making process in which
sound and images are organised into an
overall narrative.

3. How it starts
• The video starts with a mid-shot of Chris Martin’s face,
he is looking up. So from this we can connote that he
is staring up at the heaving’s to remember the
memories he had with his late girlfriend/ It then
zooms out to show a dull and dirty setting, which may
connote his negative lifestyle. Visual effects are used
as the shot fades over the previous one, which may
represent his thought track, being muddled up and
confused.

4. Reverse edit – When it is rewound so
that it plays backwards.
• A reverse edit is then used throughout the
whole video, from this I connote that he wants
to change time and reverse it back to when he
was happy. He had to learn the words
backwards to keep continuity when the film
was reversed.

5. 360 Pan
• A 360 pan shot shows him as continuity editing
then shows a memory, which is further back in
time, in a new location, but the continuity still
works as the video is reversed. It then zooms out
which may represent him detaching himself from
the world.
• During the 360 pan shot, there is a jump cut to
BMX-ers, so from this we can connote that he is
trapped in his grief and the world is carrying on
without him.

6. Jump Cuts
• Jump Cuts – Disorientating transitional device
in the middle of continuous film, so it is
noticeably advance in time.

7. Match on action
• Towards the end of the video there is an eye
line match on of Chris Martin view of the car
crash, this makes it more personal and
emotional as its as if we have stepped into his
body.