Relationships between shots

     The way the video is constructed is through the multiple scenes it shows. Through the two scenes, it goes back and forth between the landscapes of mountains and then to the city. Then moves on to a girl and boy waking up. Already a person can see that the shots are mirrored after one another. It's supposed to invoke a sense that these two either have a relationship or connection with one another. In the next scene, both are showing looking at an hourglass and during the music that is playing, the lyrics go "While seeing both of our hourglasses. Let's make a plan to meet somewhere that is Most far from "goodbye."" In the next scene, we see the boy and girl walk in opposite directions. The lyrics describe what the two are doing and is gonna do in the future. This also happens again when the lyrics "Everything up 'til yesterday was a prologue. Skimming through the days of old" the scene is then cut to two characters, while they simultaneously are shown growing up. It correlates showing that the two characters are growing from teenagers to adults. In another scene where the lyrics says "Dreamed of a world so far from here that's not on the map," the scene is then shown the back of the boy and then zooming into the cityscape. Then it shows the boy falling and the art style is completely changed. This cut is supposed to represent the dramatic change of the scene.

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