The “Brick by Boring Brick” video was directed by Meiert Avis, a prolific director of music movies who’s labored with everybody from Bruce Springsteen to U2. As Williams famous, “Brick By Boring Brick” was the band’s first cinematic video: “That is the primary time we have ever had an actual set, the place it is not like a stage with devices and a mic […] We have constructed this complete world.” That world owes a debt to the one del Toro constructed.

Coloration is what controls the temper in “Pan’s Labyrinth.” The movie basically has two storylines, one following Ofelia, the opposite specializing in socialist rebels attempting to flee and undermine Ofelia’s depraved stepfather, the monstrous Captain Vidal (Sergi López). Throughout the fantasy sequences, the movie is steeped in a golden hue, however when Ofelia is gone, the palette is chilly shades of gloomy blue. The make-believe world is actually vivid than the true one.

“Brick by Boring Brick” makes use of the identical colour grading. A lot of the video has golden-orange heat tones. Take the opening; because the opening guitar solo sounds off, the digicam swoops in and pushes ahead towards a large overhead shot of the woman operating by means of a forest. Pink autumn leaves swirl throughout the golden horizon, the colour stretching from land to sky. When the horrors of the world she’s created catch as much as the woman and she or he runs away from it, the colours shift to a darkish, oppressive blue.