Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down

The video opens on a close up of a girl. The lyrics immediately illustrate this- "who's that girl there?". She is very pale and has her hood up and is stood facing the camera, with her back to her surroundings. This may reflect that she's wanting to move forward and leave this place behind but her emotional performance gives connotations that she's being held back.
The video is edited to be in black and white and the weather is cold and snowy and she's dressed in a scruffy hoodie, this may be symbolic of the girls current lifestyle and mood.
The lyrics are illustrated on screen "she don't do major credit cards, I doubt she does receipts" when the camera tracks a car into the next sequence who pulls up next to the girl and we are shown her leaning into the window of his car through a long shot. The video is given voyeuristic qualities here as we are placed in the shoes of someone else watching it unfold.

The lyrics combine with the visuals here which give connotations that the girl may be a prostitute.
The next sequence places the camera on a low angle, looking up which slightly canted. We are looking up at a very tall set of stairs that spiral upwards and never seems to end. We see the girl coming down the second last flight of stairs. The staircase may be symbolic of the girls troubled life as it never seems to end and even as she's near the bottom, we don't actually get to see the bottom of the staircase so we don't know how far from the bottom she is, or in metaphorical terms- we don't know if she's any closer to escaping her hell despite how far she's came.
The music video is a direct reference to a gritty British film called 'Scummy man" and also the line "he told Roxanne to put on her red light" is a reference to the Police song 'Roxanne'.

The music relates to the visuals when the bridge into the main beat kicks in and the camera becomes canted and there's a lot of handheld shaky shots which makes it hard to see what's going on and the lights are all blurry and flashing. This reflects the fast pace of the song as the rhythms pace increases. It also mirrors the girls confusion as she doesn't know what's going on as she's just been threw in the back of a van.
There are no meat shots or close ups of the band, this may be because at the time, the Arctic monkeys were not as well known.