'Unfinished Sympathy' compared to 'Burn the Witch'

Massive Attack 'Unfinished Sympathy' 

Massive Attacks song 'Unfinished Sympathy' has a very famous music video not only as it highlights the reality of the streets in poorer areas but it also is only filmed with one shot, this means they didn't have to edit it as it was one whole clip. It starts with a man wearing black leather gloves rotating two silver balls, when the camera zooms out it shows a gang with the man at the front holding a lead with what looks like a pit bull, the camera the moves down the young boy holding a toy gun, then the camera comes up behind the singer of the song (Shara Nelson) until the very end the camera is tracking her down the street seeing what happens and who you see when walking down a poor street. As the video is aimed to show the reality of the street it doesn’t focus on the artist much as there is so much else to look at.

Radiohead 'Burn the Witch'



‘Burn the Witch’ by Radiohead it nothing like ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ as it doesn’t even have any actual actors in it, it mixes the film ‘The Wicker Man’ and a TV series called ‘Trumpton’, they kept the story line of ‘The Wicker Man’ yet take the visuals (animation) and the people from ‘Trumpton’. As it doesn’t involve any actual people and is a mix of a well-known film and a well-known series, this makes it hard to see how this represents the artist. On the other hand, the lyrics do match the video as some the of the lyrics are ‘Burn the witch, burn the witch’ this matches with the ending of the music video as the village burns a huge wicker man. For their older listeners this could please them to watch as if they did watch both ‘The Wicker Man’ and ‘Trumpton’ this will make them remember back to their childhood as ‘Trumpton’ was made for children.