'Violet Hill' Music Video Analysis

'Violet Hill' Music Video Analysis

'Violet Hill' was first released by Coldplay on 6th May, 2008. 

  • As the music video starts, the camera is wobbly/turbulent; this connotes emotional unsteadiness.
  • The black and white effect adds to the sadness and depression of the song and the lyrics (see lyric breakdown for meaning behind the lyrics).
  • Lots of close-up shots.
  • Filmed in remote locations.
  • Clips of the band climbing up a hill connotes struggle (similarly to what the lyrics are implying; again, see lyric breakdown).
  • Chris Martin (Coldplay's lead vocalist) struggles to walk through the snow (at the end of the music video), with the clip ending with him collapsing into the snow - these things again connote struggle and the idea of the 'battle of attrition' in war. Also, the fact that this is one of the only shots without the rest of the band in again links to the idea of war (and the ideology of the song) since it suggests that Chris Martin is the only soldier left in a war, with his fellow soldiers dying in war. This clip also links to the lyrics "There was snow, white snow" and "clearly I can remember from the windows they were watching while we froze down below". 

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