In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

5 shots explained.

The first opening shot is of 3 glamourised girls dressed all the same with the main focus on their legs. This relates to goodwins ideas of the voyeuristic treatment of the female body with the car lights shining mainly on their long, naked legs, immediately gaining the audiences focus. I placed the girls in a empty yard very much like a empty space in beyonces single ladies video (above right), The gates, costumes and darkness created a false dangerous effect on the girls, but establishing their freedom being this side of the gates.

I wanted my music video to be very performance based like beyonces single ladies. The 3 girls in my video move very rhythmically and together to express their closeness and connection, very alike to beyonces video. There is also an element of technical codes, with the lyrics in my video on this shot being 'I rise' with the girls raising their arms into the air.

After a few shots through my video of the performances we flick to a opposite long shot of the artist on her own in an open space, with a beautiful view, very much like in take thats video patience (above right). My artist stands out to all the dull colours around her, catching the audiences eye. I used these shots in the countryside to represent her being lost and on her own, relating to lyrics, i used a long shot for this to show her surroundings and that she looked small in world to represent her loneliness.

This is the first shot which gives us a clear understanding to the narrative of the video. I used the black and white effect on the camera to represent they were in the past, like flashbacks for the audience. The actions relate to the lyrics of the couple in loves, not happy and in this case arguing. The narractive i very simple in what is clearly their home, dressed casually and represented as normal as an argument can be.

In my music video i did not use many close up shots of the artist because i wanted her to be represented more on her own in empty spaces to represent life without her boyfriend that shes arguing with in the lyrics. This is a medium closeup shot, and the closest i have of the artist. It looks very effective how everything around her is so dull and she stands out so much, being the audiences clear focus. She expresses her vocals very loud anc clearly to match the part of the song, Lady gaga in her video bad romance uses a sequence of close up which she also uses very clear expressions and emotions for the audience.