The Script - Science and Faith music video analysis

The music video to ‘Science and Faith’ by The Script is effective because it combines performance and narrative in a new and contemporary way by projecting images of narrative on a continuous performance by the band, therefore creating a music video that stands out from other music videos that combine narrative and performance by just continuously switching between the two different things. This also makes the music video run a lot smoother and makes it feel there is a more personal connection between the artist and the lyrics.



Atmosphere and mood is created through mise-en-scene, camera work and editing. Firstly the mise-en-scene is left very basic. Having the performers on a white background draws maximum attention to them and draws the audience in. This evokes a feeling of power that the vocals, as well as the lyrics have. Furthermore, seeing as images are being projected onto the artists, it also keeps the music video from being to busy and keeping balanced.

Through out the video, mainly close ups and mid shots are used. Mid shots are used to show either a whole instrument, or the band altogether. This is to reinforce to The Scripts target audience that they all play their own instruments, and are a conventional band in this way, instead of everything being created perhaps artificially, say on the computer. Close ups are used on the lead singer and the narrative character to create the personal feeling between the song lyrics and meaning and the narrative.

Editing is used in this video when the pace of the beat picks up and becomes faster, so lots of fast cuts are used. This keeps the music video exciting so as not to lose the attention of the audience and also so it fits in with the music.



This music video is concerned with themes of love, but the lyrics contain a lot of metaphors for this through science and faith terminology, therefore this determines the images we see projected on the performers. For example, even though through the narrative we see two characters, who from the overall feeling of the song the audience can gather are lovers, projected on them are images that represent the metaphors in the lyrics, for example, what looks like equations on a black board represent the lyrics ‘pulled apart her theories’. Another example of this would be when the lyrics ‘furthest constellations of our souls’ are performed, we see images of literal constellations projected onto the lead singer, Danny.