KARMA POLICE ANALYSIS

Opening shot of the a car's backseats, before panning the camera across the inside of car so that the camera is looking out of the car's windscreen - across the hood of the car, looking at a dark road. This short stays through out the intro, until the drums kick in and the lights in the car turn on, and the car begins to travel down the road. The camera stays this way throughout most of the video, looking out of the window at the front and every so often panning back to the backseat of the car.

The video is concept based - as it features a man running away from a car as the main element and focus point of the video. There is some performance features in the video - Thom Yorke (the band's singer) sat in the back seat of the car, who lip syncs to  the song as it is played.

The video is very entropic - it doesn't use techniques that are usually found in music videos. The video doesn't give information at any point as to what is happening and why, but it does put the audience in the driver's seat of the car - which makes the audience feel like they have something to do with what is going on in the video, and curious as to what will happen next. The video is redundant in the way that it has the band's singer in the video. Although this seems redundant, half way through singing he stops moving his mouth and just sits there, however his voice continues playing in the video and the camera pans back to the front of the car.

The camera changes unexpectedly later in the video, to an extreme close up of the man that is running away, but this time showing him from the front so the audience can see his expression. This allows the audience watching the video to feel a stronger connection with the man being chased, as you can see how he looks and also how scared he is. From here the shot changes back to the safety of inside the car, to back on the road as the man collapses.

Once the man stand's up he turns to face the car for the first time in the video, at which point the car reverses away from the man (giving suspense - are the people in the car retreating or getting a run up to run him over). Close up shots of both the man's face and the front of the car from his view give the feel of a Western stand off, about to "draw their guns". The camera tracks down a line of petrol that has been left on the road by the car, and tracks down from the man's point of view. Another extreme close up is shown, but this time of the man's hand and him lighting a match.

The view goes back to the inside of the car, to the driver's seat. It shows the man in front of them setting fire to the line, and the car reversing quickly as the fire chases them. This shows a change in roles in the video, this time the car being chased. The camera pans again to the back of the car, as it has done throughout the video. The continuous panning back says to me that the driver (you) are looking for reassurance, and are getting it from the person in the back of the car, who is there when everything is going okay for him... however, when the tables have turned and the driver goes to look at the back, the man is no longer there. As the car sets alight, the camera struggles against it, showing that the camera angle all along has been a first-person view of a driver.