Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists

"Nobody move, nobody gets hurt" by We Are Scientists is a fast paced video designed to compliment the fast paced beat throughout the song. All through the video, shots are infrequent and the camera tracks and shakes as if it is through the eyes of another person. As the scenes are jumpy, (with a particular contrast from extreme close ups to long shots) it gives a hurrid and intense effect to the video.As the music speeds up or becomes more intense, so follows the shots in precise correlation. An example of this is scene through the "The Blair Witch Project" style scene where the scenes become quicker and more anxious (the scenes may also represent the frantic minds or heartbeats of the said frightened band members running. To compliment the intensity of the song, the video has a theme of horror and danger mainly through the way the band members (acting out) are seen to be running away from a teddy bear. Whilst this teddy bear can contrast against the conventional innocence of it, thus making it look scarier, it could also be used for comic effect, giving the video a humourous and overdramatic side to make it more lighthearted. Small corridors, and different camera shots in the forms of cameras such a night vision camera and CCTV are used to draw upon the conventions of horror films with particular intertextual references to movies such as The Blair Witch Project, a famous horror film. The establishing shot however, is of the band playing their song, thus establishing the band members and there subsequent part in the "horror" scenes that play. The basis of most of the scenes and the general mise-en-scene throughout the video is generally average in which hold no particular excitement. By creating the scenery as such, the audience feels more drawn to the band members and their movements - that being chased by an oversized teddy bear.