Textual Analysis 1

The Script -
The Man Who Can't Be Moved

The Script are an Irish alternative rock band from Dublin, containing Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power. They're based in London after signing to Sony Label Group imprint Phonogenic in 2005. They released their debut single "We Cry" in April 2008, which peaked at number 15 on the UK Single Charts. Their second single, "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", was released in September 2008. The single reached number 2 in Ireland, Denmark, and the UK.

This music video is a mixture of narrative and performance, they use many lyric to image matches such as the police when he sings about the police saying he can't stay there, an image of a watch when he sings about waiting as long as he needs to. The music video represents him looking for the girl he loves, walking to a place where he hopes she will be waiting for him. It represents his hope on the girl, that he believes in love and that he will wait for as long as is needed for it to come back to him. And that he is a man who can't be moved from the place he is, or he can't be moved from the emotional place/state he is in, which he wants to stay where he is; in love.

The genre of this is like pop rock, it features the whole band playing together in parts of the video which makes them look like a rocky pop band, it ensures that the audience can view part of them performing, which is a way of them getting themselves known whilst pleasing their fans. They use narrative along with their performance to entertain the audience and keep them interested in them and their song. They use imagery to match their lyrics, such as the skies clouds moving, cars moving, as well as the moon moving across the sky, they speed this up and this creates a visual image for what they're singing about, that everything is moving and fast while he stays where he is waiting on this girl.

I would like to try and use some of the features within this video within my own, I would like to use the artist walking through the streets part, as it will show the searching for something that is described through the lyrics of my chosen song, as I feel this will work well with my song and will hold many connotations.