I Lived by One Republic - Music Video Analysis

Bryan Warnecke

This is a video follows the story of a teenage fan, Bryan Warnecke, who is living with cystic fibrosis. Initially he briefly explains the condition which he continues to describe aspects of it throughout the video. As the music starts it shows Bryan cycling, skateboarding and playing hocket. It also switches through videos of his youth as he explains living with the disease.

 

The main thing in this video is the clips of Bryan in his youth and showing him doing sports, however the camera is constantly switching to Ryan Tedder's face, this is where Richard Dyer's star theory can be applied as the video is subtly focusing on Ryan.

Simon Firth's theory can also be applied to this video where we see Ryan Tedder performing the song live in concert, it also shows clips of Bryan being in the crowd watching him performing and singing along/having fun. The purpose of this is to try and show that One Republic are good at performing live and that people should buy tickets to their concerts.

Bryan

"There is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals" - Andrew Goodwin. This theory is another one that can be applied to the video since whilst they are singing about "I did it all" and "I owned every second that this world would give", while there are videos of Bryan doing skateboarding or having fun, showing that despite his disease and to some extent because of his disease he wants to spend every second of his life enjoying it and being as happy as he can be while he still can.