Monday, February 2, 2015

Music Video Analysis

Here I give you a song that may stick in your head for some time if you haven't heard it before; "All About that Bass" by Megan Trainor

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk

We could go on about the contradicting message of her video but I'll just mention some of the aesthetics of the video. The video I feel is not too complicated in and of itself; it starts off introducing the "characters" in the beginning then continues on with the story/message as the video continues. It has some sharp cuts and smooth transitions and zoom shots. Another noticeable thing after having watched the video again a few times was that she seemed to be in the center of every shot when they would cut to her in the the video each time. That to mean seems somewhat contradicting to the "real" message here.

1 comment:

  1. Good observation on the framing. The movement that you identified here as zooms are dollies. The other very important part of the misé-en-scéne is the color palette. Every color is pastels, whether it the setting, the props or the costumes.

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