Lyric Breakdown

Hannah Cochrane Evanescence – Haunted Wind-up Records

Lyric breakdown

Long lost words whisper slowly to meStill can't find what keeps me here

When all this time I've been so hollow insideI know you're still there

Watching me, wanting meI can feel you pull me down

Fearing you, loving youI won't let you pull me down

Hunting you, I can smell you - aliveYour heart pounding in my head

Watching me, wanting meI can feel you pull me down

Saving me, raping me, watching me

Watching me, wanting meI can feel you pull me down

Fearing you... loving youI won't let you pull me down

“long lost” – reminds me of fantasy and fairy tales

1) Begins with a CU tracking shot of the girl’s feet as she walks into the woods (sepia filter used to imply a traditional fairy tale)Cut to a high angle canted shot of the girl walking, showing the enormity of the woods (sepia filter fades into a cold blue one to suggest a chilling atmosphere)

2) “hollow inside” – skeleton.CU shots of girl’s face and antagonist’s face to show the contrast between them. (gothic feature - otherness) Antagonist’s face is juxtaposed over the girl’s face.

4) Girl looking around, ECU of the antagonist behind trees, watching the girl. This section is very chaotic with lots of cuts between the girl and the Other; representing the girl’s panic.

3) MCU of the side of her frightened face – the antagonist comes towards her and leans over her shoulder. The girl turns around – antagonist is nowhere to be seen.

5) The girl is scared and climbs up a tree, but the antagonist grabs her leg – sequence of OTS shots as the antagonist tries to pull her down. The girl falls to the ground (slow motion) and pulls a knife from the basket, but when she turns around, the antagonist has disappeared.

8) Setting changes to inside a house in a bathroom. Girl washes the blood from her hands thoroughly in the sink.

6) Girl looks down at the knife she holds by her side. CU shot of her horrified face as she drops what she thinks is a clean knife, now stained with blood.

7) ECU of knife on the ground - Basket turned over and girl running away in the background.

9) She looks up slowly into the mirror. Disgusted, she takes a pen and furiously writes ‘SAVE ME’ on the mirror.

10) The lights begin to flicker on and off. In the mirror she sees the antagonist, who gets increasingly closer. As he goes to grab her shoulder she turns around screaming. She sinks down to the floor, screaming, crying and covering her ears. Numerous shots of the antagonist whispering in her ear and CUs of his face juxtaposed over the scene.

11) Cut to bed room lit with low key lighting. Girl is in her bed, hunched up. She hears whispering under the bed so looks underneath.

12) The antagonist’s face is shown and his hand reaches out of the darkness to grab the girl when the video cuts to black suddenly.

13) Post song scene – mirroring beginning of the girl skipping into the woods – pedestal movement upwards shows it is not the girl, but the antagonist.