Pathetic Fallacy in Music Videos

Pathetic Fallacy (where the weather is used to represent the emotions and powers at be within a scene) is commonly used within literature and film. To show positive emotions, the weather is often warm and inviting (i.e. the sun is shining). For negative emotions bad weather such as rain and cloud is used; the different weather creates very different imagery, with the grey of the clouds often reflecting loneliness.

Below is an example from the film The Matrix. On the left the rain is used to show the anger of the antagonist and the dyer situation that the protagonist faces. Whereas on the right the sun rising shows hope; the warm orange tones on the characters faces gives a sense of happiness and better things to come.

In our music video we intend to use the weather to show contrasting emotions. When the girl is alone a grey pallet will be used (i.e. cloudy and rainy weather), emphasizing her sadness; whereas for the flashbacks of happy memories we'll use the low autumn/winter sun to create a sense of warmth and companionship. 

A music video that does something similar to this is Shiver by Lucy Rose (see below). The beach scenes are similar to the images we wish to create to address our girls loneliness, and the flashbacks (which in this are on an old fashioned camera) have warmer colors, showing the happiness there once was.