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Hello we are 3 young students Viran, Marwa and Matthew all studying Media studies and we have made this blog to take you on a journey of how we are going to make a music video for our coursework.Throughout this academic year we will be updating and constantly adding new post during our journey to the final product of a music video

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Music Video Analysis- Lady gaga

Lady Gaga is an American pop singer. In August 19, 2008, her debut album, The Fame, reached number one in the UK, Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland as well as reaching a positions within the top-ten in numerous countries worldwide. Her first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face, became international number-one hits in the United States as well as the charts of other countries. The album earned a total of two Grammy Award awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face”. In November 0f 2009 she released her EP album the fame monster which had number1 hit songs “Bad romance” and “Telephone”.Lady Gaga is part of a society called Illuminati,this is a secret society founded on May 1, 1776.
In modern times it is also used to refer to a purported conspiratorial organization which acts as a shadowy "power behind the throne", .Illuminatii are believed to be the masterminds behind events that will lead to the establishment of a New World Order.Lady Gaga, Beyonce and various other Artists have been said to have ginen Their soul to the devil and follow there new belifs in exchange for power and fame.To symbolise her comitment to the devil she always covers one eye in parts of all her videos(as shown in the image)to show resemblance of the Illuminati symbol(as seen below).this mybe why her character and videos are very extravagant.

Illuminatii Symbol



One of her iconic outrageous videos is the video for the song Telephone featuring multi Grammy star Beyonce.The song telephone is a 3minite 40 second song but the video is 9 minutes 30 seconds long is was Directed by Jonas Akerlunk he also directed the video for Paparazzi..


Narrative
 This video begins where her video for “Paparazzi” left off, where Gaga was arrested for killing her boyfriend by posing him. The first three minutes of the video shows Gaga being lead into the woman’s prison and seeing her within the courtyard and gym of the prison. The story of this video is the story of how her accomplice (Beyonce) help Gaga to get out of jail and to kill all customers in the dinner Gaga gets a job at. In this section of the video we see Beyonce coming to the dinner to meet up with her boyfriend she tries to kill him by putting poison in his drink. But unfortunately he doesn’t die then we see a cut away transition to see Gaga in the kitchen making poison and dancing around as if to say he doesn’t care wants going to kill the people, then wee see Gaga serve all the costumers her poison in her pancake sauce soon after they all die. After this we see Gaga, Beyonce and Gaga’s kitchen helpers all dancing to rejoice the death of the people all around them in the diner. After the dance sequence we see Gaga and Beyonce fleeing the crime scene and driving off into the desert.


Mise-en- scene
In this mini movie the first scene is where Gaga is seen walking into a woman’s prison wearing a couture dress in the style of a prisoner’s uniform. She is then seen surrounded by other inmates mingling and dressed in vintage and stylish clothing; this would be typical in a Gaga video as she is all about image. Soon after we see Gaga in the courtyard with the other inmates she enters wearing a large chain round her body which makes it look like she is restraint and she also wears glasses that are made up of half smoked cigarettes which shows that she has made fashion out of recycled materials. In this part of the video there are background sounds of helicopters and people talking. We also see height fences with barbed wire this makes it more realistic. again we return to the inside of the prison and every inmates is wearing all leathery bike riding cloths e.g. gloves and boots, here we see Gaga  use coke cans as hair curlers. The corridor in the prison is used as a catwalk for Gaga and here dancers to parade down. as this dance sequence is finished we see Gaga leave prison in another outrageous dress with a huge hat this costume is black and white and represents her as being pure and crime and violence free. As she leaves we see her get inside the pussy wagon this car is seen in kill bill as the getaway car. This is when we are introduced to Beyonce as she drives recklessly down a highway in the desert to a dinner where the last scene takes place. In this scene we see a actual film set of a diner being used with all the diner props like cup,spoons,food,and a large number of extras.Lady Gaga is then introduced as the chef of the cafe wearing normal Chef dress but she has a telephone on her head which she talks into this is the first time she actually sings to the person on the phone After all the deeds of killing is done all the kitchen staff Gaga and Beyonce dance to rejoice the death of the customers during this they all wear American flag inspired clothes which represents then being free to speak and act.Click on the link to see the designers of Gaga and Beyonces clothing in this video.
http://www.fashionist.ca/lady-gaga/



Camera-angels, shots and Movement
In this video the camera mainly focuses on the lady gaga using sequences of close-up shots. This shot type is used so that we are focused on Gaga and Beyonce mainly as the mini movie is about them another shot type that is used is a wide shot this is used to mainly capture the dance sequences

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