Unfinished Sympathy- Massive Attack
The purpose of music videos is to promote the artist to the target audience and to reflect who they are as an artist. The song 'Unfinished Sympathy' by the British band Massive Attack was produced in 1990 and released on February 11th 1991 by Circa Records. The genre of the song is 'trip-hop' but features a string section and various orchestral elements as well as the vocals of Shara Nelson who stars in the video. The lyrics show Nelson to be longing for someone in particular, while she is wary of being hurt as she has been in the past.
The video was directed by Baillie Walsh and uses one continuous shot filmed from 1311 South New Hampshire Avenue to West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The first shot is of a street gang which highlights the gang culture present in 1990s LA, as the group of 5-8 men are real gangsters rather than actors. The gang is made up of a mix of ethnicities, showing that the community in the video are all of the same low social class regardless of the colour of their skin. One of the men holds the lead of a pitbull who wears sunglasses and a collar with spiked studs on.
You need to explain about Mise en Scene, the variety of back ground stories through out the video and how the video is a celebration of the street.
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