- old camera tapes of baby growing up in between shots
- keeps cutting to 2 men walking on dirt track in field
- credits shown during the walking in field scenes, producers, title of film, cast, editors, writers, etc.
- medium tempo country song playing as non-diegetic sound, nostalgic, sounds old, a bit melancholic
- kids being shown in the films are the two older men walking in the field, possibly brothers, cross cutting
- family footage,
- never saw the character's faces, emotional connection through music, more complex
- music starts on black out screen, half way through into of music video of baby in a pushchair comes in
- vintage style, static on it, looks like real footage from 1970-80s, heavily affected some footage to make it look like old film footage
- opening line of song is "I can't be held responsible", lowkey, slow paced song and gains pace as opening title sequence goes on
- wide establishing shot of field and two men walking, right to left, something unusual is going to occur or is occurring, feels like they're returning from somewhere, establishes the idea that they're returning, British countryside, don't really know where they are, forces us to focus on the fact they are going back from somewhere
- fade/dissolve into more vintage footage, links the two characters to the fact that they are the kids in the videos
- older brother in videos hugging younger brother, sets tone for their relationship
- wide depth of field shot of brothers walking away from camera, shows distance they are walking/scale of journey, don't see them talking whole journey, always a little bit of distance between them or one leading the other
- camera is always still and characters walk away from camera each time, disconnect/shows contrast between the sweet childhood videos and these shots
- shot duration is slow paced of just two men walking, shows that the journey is long
- clips showing family, Christmas opening presents, happy memories, small Christmas tree, not a lot of money/not very privileged, quite a big family, all about family
- cross cut back to the field shots, which are colder feeling than the vintage films
- one brother is wearing walking clothes and carrying the bags, military looking, other brother wearing tracksuit, doesn't look very suited for a long walk
- the one who is always leading is older, about 2-4 years apart, which we can see from the videos as them as kids
- they aren't holding a map so they know where they're going, shows they have possibly done the journey before
- shot of them coming towards the camera, but camera tilts round as they walk past and they're walking away from the camera again, faces seen briefly but not enough to form a connection or gain any information
- somebody is recording everything, emphasises idea of happy childhood as someone wants all of it being recorded for memories
- final shot, music is at the end and fades/dies down, the bag is off his shoulder, we see them walking up to an old looking house, we get the impression that they arrive as they are also no longer on a dirt path, shot fades to black, sense of journey is over and its night time, returning back to a place they possibly hadn't been back for a while
- brother's relationship possibly not as good as it was when they were kids so they're not talking
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