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Rabbit in the Headlights - UNKLE, a brilliant use of concept


This is one of the most astounding examples of concept in a music video I have encountered. The video's usage of a such a simple theme to represent the lyrics and message of the song speak powerful volumes and have influenced me to lean more towards a concept style than narrative style when designing my music video. It allows it to be massively open to interpretation, which as in literature, denotes sheer quality and is something I personally want to match in my video. For example, for this video many people have stated that the character portrayed is Jesus and there are many factors supporting and defusing this fact.

The quality that his video has, with such a simple concept, is something I believe that a narrative music video cannot match and is why my video will try and match this quality of concept as much as possible.