The establishing shot of the video is a mid-shot of a boy on the beach ready to swing a baseball bat. Then a shot of the hand of a man as he throws the ball. As a long shot of the ball being thrown at the boy is thrown the music starts to play. The camera then cuts to a long shot of the band playing in a massive living room of a house. The camera pans slightly from one side of the room to the other and then cuts to a medium close-up of the lead vocalist James Dean Bradfield. Then to a medium close-up of the guitarist for slightly less time and then a cut and zoom in to the drummer. The camera then goes back to a mid shot of the lead singer and then to a long of the whole band again. At 30 seconds the camera cuts back to the narrative on the beach but this time shows two little girls as they make their way to the sea. The camera then cuts back to the large living room and the lead singer standing near a couch away from the rest of the band playing a guitar. A shot is then shown of the guitarist standing by a window with with the sea view from it and a piano not being played to the back of the shot. The camera then focus' back on the smallest girl as she laughs and looks happy running away from the sea. The camera then quickly shows Bradfield again and then cuts to a shot of a lady picking up a small boy, they're both smiling and so close-up shots are shown to establish their happiness. There's then a shot of James looking out of the window, possibly down at the people on the beach at the people. There is then an establishing long shot of a little hut on top of a hill which is where the Manic street preachers are situated inside. The camera pans slightly and then cuts back inside to a long shot to show the guitarist and lead singer facing away from each other performing. Then the camera goes back to the narration where the lady and the two girls are holding hands walking in to the sea. The camera then cuts to a shot of a blonde lady sunbathing but she looks like she's watching the family walking into the sea and she's smiling. The mood of the video changes as a long shot through smoke is showing a soldier standing still with a gun. After going back to a shot of the lead singer the camera goes back to a shot of the soldier emerging from the smoke and he has a concerned look on his face in this mid-shot which pans into almost a close-up. A wide shot is then shown of the blonde lady sunbathing but a big explosive bit of smoke and several soldiers run out from it and across the beach as parts of the sand blows up as the camera tracks around them. The camera shows the occupiers of the beach going about what they were doing as though the soldiers weren't even there even though they're running right through each shot. Throughout these parts of narration the camera keeps going back to a medium close-up of James Dean singing inside the hut. at 2:05 the drummer is shown again for the second time. As the soldiers make there way down the beach there is a variety of shots on them but the odd cut to the mid-shot of the lead singer not to lose effect of the band. At the end of the video we see the beginning shot again exactly the same only this time the man threw a bomb at the boys bat instead of a baseball.
I think the variety of shots used in this video is good as there is a big range. I also think they gave the lead singer a lot of screen time especially compared to the drummer but it worked as we still knew that it was a band and not just James Dean Bradfield on his own. The majority of the video was the narration which I think was unclear when the soldiers appeared but the camera shots and movements were pretty good.
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