In Falling slowly from the movie Once, the director tried to capture a day to day experience into one video. The genre of the video is a narrative showing the love story between the two actors. Throughout the film the director uses a good amount of rhythm editing to go along with how simple but powerful the song is. For example, when the two hop onto a motorcycle and drive away, the chorus o the song gets louder and quicker. The rhythm editing is an effective tool for the video and enhances the song. The Diegesis of the video is based on hope. Both actors are in a state of their life's where they sing "take this sinking boat and point it home, we still have time" (Falling Slowly). At this point in the song, both actors are falling for each other and find a sense of hope that it will work out. Mise en scene is all about the setting the lighting and everything in the scene. When they sing "raise your hopeful voice you have a choice you've made it last" (Falling Slowly). At this point the scene shows the guy looking out into the ocean and finding a sense of belonging, with the beautiful ocean, and also shows how distant he is to his love and the beauty of it. This video unfortunately has a sad ending, bu gives the viewer much hope.
     In the video the director shows a focus on the girl to show her vulnerable state. its dangerous for her to fall in love with him because she has a family and a husband prior to meeting the guy she falls in love with. When the guy sings "Falling slowly sing your melody I'll sing a long"(Falling Slowy). The shot of the guy towards the ending of the video wants to spend the rest of his life with the girl, but as the shot shows a close or of the guys face the viewer can infer that the love of his life is gone. The scene at the end of the video shows how the girl stays with her husband and child because she knew that she had to stay with them. "Words fall through me and always fooled me and I can't react"(Falling Slowly). This part of the song shows the conclusion shot and also how they will always love each other even though they will never see each other again. In the video, i could not find any flash back or flash forwards besides the concluding scene, that does jump forward in time. The main idea of the video is that love is a powerful feeling, and hope will make the love grow stronger.