In the music video of ‘Speechless’ by German DJ Robin Schulz, it tells a story about a guy who falls in love with a girl at first sight. But no matter how hard he tries to do everything he can, the girl will not belong to him eventually.
The opening is a medium wide shot which shows the audience that it happens in a small restaurant in India. The music drops until one of the servers turns up the radio. I was impressed by how the music starts with the interaction of the radio. As the camera moves up, the protagonist yawns with a tired and bored look. However, everyone else is so busy with preparing the food. In the next shot, the protagonist serves the food with the same tired face, and the customer is unsatisfied with his attitude. I can tell that he is tired of his everyday life.
As the chorus of the song comes, the girl shows up in front of the protagonist as a customer. He stops his work and stares at her for a few seconds, and he just keeps looking at her. It tells the audience that he is attracted to this beautiful girl at this moment. He gets up to stand on a table and is ready to do something to draw her attention. At the same time, the drop part comes. He tries to impress her in different ways, but it doesn’t work. And then a bunch of people come out to dance with him in front of the girl as the best part of this song arrives. The good news is that he finally gets the girl’s attention. She is surprised and a little bit awkward, and then she laughs.
Unfortunately, the girl is about to leave in a very unique way. A rope ladder drops from the top, she climbs on and flies away with the helicopter. This is the outro of this song. In the end, the protagonist is speechless to see that. It’s an exact interpretation of the lyric “You left me speechless.”
I’m comfortable with the composition of the shots, some of them follow the rule of third, some shots just put the object in the middle, but it’s well balanced. However, I think some shots are not in a good composition. For example, there are some closeups of the girl in the middle of the music video, there is too much space on the left part of the screen.
From the costumes and props, we can tell that it is a cheap and fast local restaurant in india. It looks simple and rough, nothing fancy in this environment. It fits the protagonist’s current mood and situation. When the girl shows up, I can feel that they are so different from each other. She has makeup on and is well dressed, but the protagonist looks more poor than the girl and he is just a server in this small restaurant. Their worlds are completely different.
The narrative makes me both happy and sad. It shows how two people who live in two different worlds will not be together eventually. Sometimes no matter how hard you try to get someone or something, they will not be yours. I love how every action in this music video interacts with the music. It not only tells a story but also explains the emotion of every part of the song.