Questionnaire and results

We did a questionnaire before we began to think of ideas to get an idea of what type of audience we should target and to learn more about how people watch music videos.

Analysis Of Lyrics

Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient
(Don't do the same things I did, they will get rid of you when you become useless)
Up on harrowdown hill
Near where you used to go school
That's where I am
That's where I'm lying down
(Talking about Dr. David Kelly, where his body was found)

Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And where's the blood?
And where's the blood?
(Raising questions, was it a suicide or murder? And where's the evidence?)

I'm comin' home
I'm comin' home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
(Everyone knows the truth but they can't stand up and say it out loud)

So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry
(Question the ministry of defence and government)

We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
(There are a lot of people who know the truth, too many for them to get rid of)

Can you see me when I'm runnin'?
Can you see me when I'm runnin'?
Away from them
Away from them
(Running away from the ministry)

I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone
(They don't care if he lives or dies, they want him to stop speaking the truth)

I'm comin' home
I'm comin' home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't...
There are too many of us
So you can't count
(Too many people know the truth, protesters)

It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
(The matter or issue was very unstable and dangerous)
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness

Artist's Target Audience

Thom Yorke is originally from the band Radiohead, therefore, their audiences would be the same. Their music can be put into the alternative rock genre. It is hard to define their target audience as they are a variety of people. They are possibly teenagers to people in their 20's.

Here is their website: http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

The website is used by the members of the band and shows what kind of things they like.

The Story Behind Harrowdown Hill

Here's an interview that Thom York did about the song and the band.


Harrowdown Hill which is in Longworth, Oxfordshire, is the place where the body of Dr. David Kelly was found in 2003. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Yorke said, "The government and the Ministry of Defence... were directly responsible for outing him and that put him in a position of unbearable pressure that he couldn't deal with, and they knew they were doing it and what it would do to him... I've been feeling really uncomfortable about that song lately, because it was a personal tragedy, and Dr Kelly has a family who are still grieving. But I also felt that not to write it would perhaps have been worse." In another interview, Yorke said that "Harrowdown Hill" is "the most angry song I've ever written in my life. I'm not gonna get into the background to it, the way I see it... And it's not for me or for any of us to dig any of this up. So it's a bit of an uncomfortable thing."

Editing techniques and symbolism

The video starts off with a stop motion animation of an eagle which was taken from a 2003 film by David Russo titled 'Pan With Us'


Symbolism of the eagle
The eagle has many connotations and different cultural meanings. As a Christian symbol, the eagle represents salvation, redemption and resurrection. Within the video, I believe it represents freedom, as it can fly around freely. However, within the video it is also manipulated by different people and is moulded differently with people's hands. It also changes, for example, it transforms into a drawing on the wall and then back into a model. This can mean that the eagle isn't really free and that people are changing it to what they want it to be so there is no real freedom.


The time lapse footage was by Mark Eiffert.

It shows the sky and clouds in landscapes and time passing by, night turning into day. The reason Chel White used these shots were to shows how time passes but there is still not much change in the world, in a sense that it will always be corrupt.



A technique called Smallgantics was also used a lot within Ariel shots of landscapes, buildings and protesters. Smallgantics is a digital image process that accurately simulates miniature depth of field (DOF) on full-scale filmed subjects via a "hand-made" digital application. Artificial depth planes, up to 8 layers, are generated by the artist, which distort with each frame of a sequence, giving the artist complete control of a simulated miniature DOF scenario. It makes every scene and landscape look small as if they are models and we are looking at them from above. This may symbolise God looking down on us and how small everything is for Him. It could show that He watches over everything such as the protests and sees the bad things in the world happening.




A slow-motion technique is also used towards the end of the video underwater. This part is my favourite of the whole video as it looks really surreal. There are objects thrown in to the water, a dog swimming, and the artist, Thom Yorke, himself jumping in the water. I like this part as it matches the music when it slows down and the colours used are cyan which gives more of an underwater feel but also makes Thom Yorke look pale and cold.

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