Mumford and Sons - The Cave

The song "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons features the band riding around on motorbikes singing there song after they have given there instrument to four people who seem to be part of a marching band playing on a beach. The Acoustic style of the guitar suits the beach as acoustic instruments a conventionally very relaxing as a beach is. The style of this video is very folk like and you can tell this as the video doesn't feature much technology apart form the motorbikes. The four band members are in suits 3 white 1 black this doesn't make a huge amount of sense as you would expect to see the the band member in the black suit to be the lead singer which he isn't.

The very start of the video when they hand there instruments to the four members of the marching band they speak in a foreign language which I assume is Spanish. Not many music videos feature subtitles which you could say makes this music video break role. This video is a performance video as the majority of the video is either the marching band playing or the band members singing there song while driving.

A lot of the clips in this video have been slowed which can be used to create an effect of calmness as everything is slowing down around the characters. This is a very common effect to be used in music videos and it look very good and clean in this one. This video doesn't feature anything that could like to Laura Mulveys male Gaze theory but could be connected to the Goodwin theory as the lyrics and visuals seem to be linked. The song is about a journey and they are travelling round on there motorbikes and return back to the starting point at the end.