Hashim Shah Music Video Blog

David Guetta Titanium ft Sia – Hashim Shah  In the beginning of the video there is a young boy in the centre with all of the things around him destroyed. We can assume that from the items surrounding him – books, papers, lockers. The shot moves out to reveal all the mess that the boy as supposedly caused. The next scene is the boy walking through a corridor which is also messy, due to surrounding objects having been also smashed. However, the camera doesn’t focus on the boy walking through a corridor, rather a woman in one of the passing rooms. As the boy turns around to look at her, she partly closes the door out of fear, and is on the phone to someone – appears as if she is calling for help/protection.  The next shot is of the boy cycling down the middle of a deserted road. The camera speeds up the boy riding on his bike, to create the illusion that he is being chased by somebody. During this scene of the music video, the camera jumps to different angles ...

Emeli Sande – Heaven – Hashim Shah – Media In the music video to ‘Heaven’ by Emeli Sande, most of the camera angles are directed at her. They hone in on her face and other faces of people that she might encounter on a day to day basis. At various stages through the music video, new people are introduced and are followed throughout the video. As the video starts the people look quite sad and are possibly in unprivileged circumstances. The camera angles are also directed towards their faces, with the intention of showing their glum facial expressions. Throughout the video whenever Emeli Sande appears in the video, she is miming the words to her song whilst sometimes using hand movements to express how she feels towards the song. As the video progresses, their facial expressions begin to lighten up, and the background’s become brighter. Previously, the backdrops to the people were of dark streets / street lamps / beds in the street. As the video progresses the, backdrops are...