The song I am writing about is Red Flag by Billy Talent.
Billy Talent is a canadian Punk Rock band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2UktJtKpFw
The video begins with singing and a red flag being superimposed. There are short scenes of hand cuffs locking children away. As the children escape, shaky handheld camerawork is used to convey the uneasy journey of the children. One of the experimental techniques used is a reflection shot of the children running through the streets through a store display window. As more children escape, they begin covering more and more objects in red flags, covering buildings, military tanks, boats and houses in their path. The red flags, although commonly associated with communism and violence is, in this case, used to symbolize peace and youth culture.
One of the most commonly used experimental techniques used is behind-the-wall shot, in which the subject is behind a veil, or a wall, or a cage and is seen as being encaged behind a barrier. This creates a feeling of confinement and claustrophobia, which parallels the video's "break out" message.
The close ups of the band's instruments and faces are turbulent and unstable, communicating the same sense: the conditions of the video, the freeing of children, the voicing of the oppressed. These are all turbulent matters.
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