EG6: Chase & Status - Lost & Not Found

ACT: Chase & Status
TRACK: Lost & Not Found
YEAR: 2013
DIRECTOR: Unknown
GENRE: Drum & Bass
AUDIENCE: 15-25, M+F

VIDEO:


LYRICS

the boy cycles past the poster

PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE AND/OR CONCEPT: There is one main narrative in this video, but we see the beginning and end result through other people actions and lives. At the beginning, we see a boy cycle past a poster of a missing girl. 

the officer comforts the girl

The main narrative is that the girl who is missing was seemingly kidnapped by a man who is now on the run. We see the police break into his apartment and the police catch him. The girl is found in the apartment and is consoled by a female police officer. The man is taken outside and he

the girl takes the officers gun and
holds her hostage

struggles against the officers holding him. Meanwhile, the girl is hysterically crying as she watches on. Then, the girl steals the female officers gun and holds it to her head, threatening to shoot if the man isn't released. He escapes and goes to an unlocked car, and opens the passenger door for the girl. She still aims the gun as she gets into the car, before speedily driving off. We then cut back to a shot of the boy still on his bicycle, looking confused. He then cycles off before it fades to black.

PERFORMANCE STYLE: There is no performance footage in this music video, and we dont see the artists either. This is quite normal for Chase & Status, and no performance footage is common within the genre also. 

INTERTEXTUALITY: During the beginning 30 seconds of the video, before the music starts, a car drives past playing Blind Faith, another song by Chase & Status.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUALS + LYRICS: At the beginning there is a brief close-up of a poster with a girls picture, with the caption 'missing', which relates to the title of  the song 'Lost & Not Found'.

REPRESENTATIONS: At first the girl is represented as young, helpless and unable to protect herself. However she goes against the stereotype of a female hostage by turning out to be linked with her captor, and she herself holds someone hostage.