Thursday, October 30, 2008

Music Videos

Celine Dion - My Heart will go on

  • Big song like 'Gold'
  • Portrays powerful emotion - love
  • Performance cut with a narrative
  • Direct Address
  • Money shots
  • 0.44-0.48 - overlaying closeups of hands - similar to many of our intimate shots. we also used a few overlays
The Cribs - Men's Needs

  • Voyeuristic views of woman, scopohphilic pleasures (although censored)
  • One shot - interesting effect on audience
  • Money shots
  • Goes form out of focus to in focus very quickly. That teamed with the fast paced zooming and shaky handheld camera = disorientating
  • band performance
  • Mainly disjuncture (werid) but possibly some amplification???
The Cribs - Martell

  • 0:48 similar shot to our microphone shot at....
  • cut to the beat (music, visual relationship evident)
  • money shots
  • direct address
  • amplification - 'slap on the back' - visuals show a mannequin with 3 red streaks on it's back, 'you hate my sunglasses' -mannequin with sunglasses on
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
(Embedding disabled)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0i38JRTyMik
  • Voyeuristic views of women, objectifying their bodies
  • Camera focused on parts of body - Shots of legs with red stilettos, CU of bum (zooming), chest pumps, silhouette in water etccccc
  • Direct address whilst dancing/being 'sexy' - as if for the audience
  • male gaze --> scopohrophilia
Westlfe -
-Flying without wings - typical of genre, matching outfits
-You raise me up - big song, black and white, powerful emotion portrayed

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