ED SHEERAN / THE A TEAM

‘The A Team’ is a song about being a drug addict, specifically in the class A range. This music video was filmed in London in areas such as Holloway, Angel Islington, Highbury and Camden's Primrose Hill. I will keep the black and white filtered effect in mind when creating my music video as I feel as if it creates a lot of effect to the audience.

The music video for ‘The A Team’ portrays the life of a prostitute who became involved and influenced by drugs at the age of 18,hence ‘been this way since 18’ the video leads up to the death of this young lady who goes by the name of Laura.

This piece was based on small concert that Sheeran did for homeless drug addicts based in some kind of recovery of rehab, to make this easier I have looked into the meaning of ‘The A Team’ and I came across a report where Sheeran said this about his song ‘The A-Team’ : ‘The A Team' came from an experience I had when I did a gig at a homeless shelter," says Sheeran of the song. "I was 18 at the time and kind of quite naive. So, I was a bit taken back by some of the stories that I heard. I got home that night and I just wrote a lot of the lyrics. I wanted to write it so it sounded kind of upbeat, so you wouldn't really know what it's about, because it's quite a dark subject. "A drug like crack cocaine is called a 'class A' drug. That's in the same category as heroin. Instead of making it clear and just saying what the problem was, I'd say, 'She's in the 'class A' team'. It was kind of my way of covering up (a person's addiction), I guess, making it a bit more subtle."

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Shots in the music video include close ups, establishing shots, opening shots, extreme close ups. With the usage of these shots the audience gain a clear understanding of what the song may be about and they can begin to make their own ideologies on the song, between the lyrics and visuals.