Jennie Potts
Conventions of music videos:Taylor Swift - FifteenThe song
'Fifteen' is a song that was created in the year of 2009 by an
American singer/songwriter named Taylor Swift. The video features
Swift walking through a garden, where she relives many memories
with Anderson, being the bestfriend that is involved throughout the
music video (Redhead) who's story is told based on a true story
that happened to taylor involving heartache between both her and
her bestfriend 'Abigail Anderson'."Fifteen" is a ballad, which has
Swift looking back on events that occurred to her and her best
friend at the age of fifteen and cautioning young girls to not fall
in love easily.
Camera Shots; Involves some close shots when Taylor is saying a
specific line that she wants to put across to the target audience
as effectively as possible. Some 'two shots' are involved when she
is filmed speaking to another participant in the music video, to
make who shes talking about in a line of the song, effective to
show how she would react to the specific line she is saying.
Some CA's are used within the video. (Cutaways) A moment in the
video when someone other than the subject (Taylor Swift) is focused
on. In this case a participant being a school student walks past
her when she is speaking about staying out of strangers ways on her
the first day of being a freshman 'Try to stay out of everybodys
way' (lyric) . And in the a line the subject says 'who wink at you
and say, you know i haven't seen you around' WS - (Wideshot) CA -
(Cutaway) - When she speaks to the other subject focused on.
Camera Movements;Dolly - A dolly is used in the video when
Taylor is playing the guitar and singing part of the song that
involves a strong part of the story.
Follow - The camera follows Taylor when she is walking through
the doors of her first day at school and she doesn't stop
walking.
Pink - PerfectF***** Perfect, or for clean versions (Perfect)
was a song released by Pink on December 2010. The song follows the
footsteps of another song Pink released "Raise your Glass", in
terms of lyrical content and themes, encouraging all people with
insecurities to accept each other for their true identities and not
to be afraid to express who you are and who you want to become.
Camera Shots;Close Shots; Involves some close-ups of the main
subject who is suffering from depression because of 'self-image
insecurities'. At one point the subject peers on at 'slimmer' girls
in a clothes store while they hold up petite clothing to their
bodies. - Two Shot - Is used to show to 'slim' friends checking out
their 'slim' frame in a petite dress in a clothing store. -
Close-up as the subject peers on.
- Extreme close-up of subjects eyes to try and express the
sadness that she is suffering from in the video.
Camera Movements;
Dolly - The camera moves smoothly throught the moments in her
life when she expresses that people 'Mistreated, misplaced,
mis-understood' her.
Zoom - Zooms into her face when speaking, though is still moving
away slowly.
Katy Perry - FireworkThe song 'Firework' was released in 2010 on
October 16th. The song involves a story about insecurities and
courage on individuals. It could be classed as a 'Self empowerment'
video and is an inspiring song with meaningful lyrics.
Camera Shots;Close-up of Katy Perry's face in the beginning of
the video when she is singing.
VWS - Very wide shot or WS (Wideshot). Katy is visible but it is
showing the surroundings she is in. To express how powerful she
wants her point to come across.
EWS - Extreme wide shot. Subjects are very minimally visible,
the surroundings overtake everything else in this shot.
Camera Movements;
This is an EWS as well as a 'dolly' the camera smoothly moves
around the building non-stop. Could also be a 'follow'.
Pan - The camera moves right to left when moving around the
building to then go back onto a close shot of Katy and the other
subjects.Other movement cannot be detected.
Jennie Potts
