Music Video Analysis- The Weekend- The Zone

This video starts with a car driving down the road in darkness and all you can see is the yellow lines down the middle. This creates a dark atmosphere. The next clip shows a pair of eyes appear in black and stare at the camera as fog blurs the road. The connotations of that clip are that these eyes appear to be judging whoever is driving the car. It may represent a guilty conscious of the driver or that somebody is watching over him.

The video puts in a room full of balloons with a girl sitting on a couch smiling and giggling to herself she is wearing a lot of makeup and it could be interpreted that she is in a dream world and this is why she cant stop smiling. This room could be her 'Zone' as she is taken to this changed place and then bought back to reality which turns her fantasy into a nightmare.

During Drakes verse smashed lamps are shown on the floor and the girl is wearing a red dress, the lights are also flickering and she starts to panic, this shows that she is having a nightmare in her 'Zone'. The room then goes dark and is flooded with popping balloons.

The end of the video sees a reappearance of the eyes on the road and its as if to say that surreal experience has come to an end.

We have taken a lot of inspiration from this video and it has given us a lot of ideas to what we can do for our music video. The video is telling a story and the Weeknds dark style of music compliments the video really well and you can clearly see how the video relates to the song. This is the sort of video that me and my partner are planning on doing .