Edgar Wright's Blue Song by Mint Royale

Edgar Wright directed Mint Royale's music video (2002) for 'Blue Song', turning the song into the main focus and soundtrack of a sort of short film. The narrative is self contained but could potentially be a part of a larger storyline. There was not enough time to develop a closer character development, but the audience still get a sense of the characters personality and characteristics that shape the narrative. For example, the added humour with the cardboard props makes the character appear well-rounded, in the same sense it could suggests the character to be slightly immature, silly but when it is needed, more serious - like making sure that he doesn't seem suspicious or noticed by anyone during the tense situation but still managing to create comedy for the audience.

The location of the video is in an underground car park, already noting a darker theme, and the majority of the focus is on the car in which the narrative starts and remains for the rest of the short film. The camera work moves to follow the music much more than a story, pans and handheld camera movements are chosen to show the feeling the character has of the music as opposed to the situation the character is in. To accompany that is the editing, which corresponds much more to the music than to conveying the story with exception for little comedy bits. The editing is mostly erratically fast paced, with on occasion slower moments to demonstrate an external point of view of the character in the car.