Nine Frame Analysis

No1: 0:18

This shot consists of a crowd at a concert, being made up of cardboard cut outs and real people. This shows the beginning of the narrative; (the narrative shows their rise to fame via certain situations that are usually shown with fame.) At one point in the video a member of the band pulls out a phone and plays a sound, the actual songs start is then played when he presses play.

No2: 0:20

This scene is shot at night and therefore dark, showing a crowd of real people crowding round a sports car. Another member of the band is scene walking towards the car ignoring all of his “fans” and getting in. The scene continues the rise to fame theme as fast cars are usually something that come with fame and fortune.

No3: 0:29

The next scene is a dark scene with a spotlight centered on the band in a recording studio. The band are recording with another huge star (shown to be a hip-hop producer.) This continues the narrative, as collaborations are something else that famous singers get to do. The scene is also reminiscent of stereotypes pertaining to underground cultures such as rap and hip-hop.

No4: 1:38

The next scene shows the band in hotel room having a wild party. The lighting in the scene is bright showing a posh hotel suite and the band playing at various points in the room. The narrative is continuing as rock stars are famed for throwing wild parties in hotels and breaking things.

No5: 1:49

The next scene shows one of the band members at a modeling shoot. The scene is darkened with the lights focused on the model. The narrative is continued in the way that some stars, when they gain enough popularity, get to go too a photo-shoot. The scene also is based upon a real life event involving one of the guitarists.

No6: 2:14

The next scene is a rip off of the playboy mansion, which is another thing that famous people get to do as they gain fame. The scene is set at night and dark with all the light coming from artificial lights around a pool. It shows various members of the band chatting to numerous pretty women around the pool with one of them appearing on a magazine after this scene.

No7: 3:03

The next scene is set a funeral which everyone is wearing black and red apart from a few people e.g. spacemen and others. The scene is shot in colour as opposed to a dull setting. This seems to represent the end of their fame and fortune adventure. A few people in the crowd are actually people from previous FOB videos, such as antler boy from "Sugar, we're going down". Also certain celebrities such as Seth Green appear as well.

No8: 3:21

The next scene is of a guitarist playing a solo upon a casket. This is the final part of their rise to fame and is almost a tribute to the dead guitar player. The scene is shot at the funeral and is still bright and cheerful which doesn’t suit a funeral at all. This scene seems to be taken from either a Guns 'N Roses video or Avenged Sevenfold video who have both done a scene with someone playing guitar on top of a casket.

No9: 3:33

This scene is shot in black and white, possibly to show reality as all the other scenes are revealed to be false and part of a dream that was created by the guitarist who died within the dream. The fact that it was all a dream shows that all the events that happened previously could still happen to the band and is therefore a form of foreshadowing.