Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Man down it’s an R&B track this is because a man and a woman which helped to explain the narrative of the song.
The relationship between the song between music and the visuals was the same violence, guns, shooting a man. All images went along with the song to show the narrative and Rihanna’s reaction.
The camera and editing styles go along with the song so that this allows the audience to understand the narrative of the song. However there was lots of close ups were used to show Rihanna singing and this helps to show Rihanna’s emotions of the narrative which was about rape.
In the video Rihanna was wearing less clothing this helps to promote the artist and allows the audience to buy in to her lifestyle. Her hair style, the way her make-up was put on.
Coconut juice was her intersexual references to show her culture which is  Barbados.
Man down narrative based with small amount of performance this narrative about the artist being raped and her getting her revenge by shooting the guy.
Jason Derulo- It Girl
It Girl by Jason Derulo is an R&B song this is because the song is about a GIRL who is in love with and that’s the kind of girl he wants in his life.  The relationship between the lyric and the visuals was a woman and every time he says ‘’IT GIRL’’ there’s a close up of the girl all images went along with the song to show the narrative and the artist emotions when singing.
Also the camera editing style goes along with the song it was black and white but there also was used of colour. This allows the audience to understand the narrative of the song.
There was lots of close up of the women and Jason derulo singing this helps to show the artist emotions and reactions when they singing which the song is about love.
Jason derulo ‘’IT GIRL’’ was a narrative based with small amount of performance the narrative is about the artist falling in love and saying this is it girl this explains that she’s the only one in his life now.


1 comment:

  1. Cleve, is this your post on the generic conventions of a music video? If this is then you have misunderstood the task and you have analysed two music videos from the same genre instead of three different music genres.

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