One Shot music Video by Christina Aguilera

A 'One shot' is any music video which consists of action, continuous in time and space. The shot is also from the perspective of a single camera.

Analysing the video.....

• Extreme close up her facial expression gives people hope and makes them believe there is nothing impossible in life.
• The black and white lighting reflects her emotions and blends with the song itself.
• Her pale white dress reflects she is innocent woman but it can be seen as her image of wearing less clothing is suggesting she is vulnerable woman and a victim.
• Crane shots in the video shows she is desperate for someone to hear her voice. Crane shots also makes the video personal and special which is directly address to the audiences.
• The shot of her in white rectangle shape makes her stand out against the black/grey street- could be showing the contrast between bad and good attitude of human nature.

Things I like about the video.....

1. The lyrics which is personal and very inspiring.
2. The performance of Christina which is directly address to the audiences.

Chris Brown- Beautiful People

The video is a concept based video. It does not contain the story or any live performance by the artist. The song is heavily based on how wonderful friends the artist has. Even the title 'Beautiful People' symbolises how beautiful his friends and family are. The song has more than one meaning as it can be seen that the song and video have different meanings. The song is all about how there are beautiful people in the world where as the video is all about the artist's friends and how important they are in his life.

Things I liked....

• Camera work- how the shots shape the meaning of the song. For instance, the long shots of Chris Brown performing a live.
• The special effect it used to symbolise the meaning for instance, the shot of a studio and the people in it is to symbolise their power and to inform the audiences that's where they hang around.
• The artist it self as he is considered to be the most important in the video because lot of shots are seen through his point of the view.

How successful was the song....

• Internationally the 'Beautiful People' reached the top ten in four countries.
• Received lots of positive reviews from critics.

What I was inspire by....

• The bold fonts in yellow - It was really cool and unique.
• The song's lyrics which is beautiful itself.
• Other artists!

She Loves You(Live performance by The Beatles)



The performance video of 'The Beatles' have all those elements that is needed:

1. Most of their fans are girls this is clearly shown in video.


2. Even though the stage is plain and less attractive the costumes wore by the band makes the performance stands out.


3. The performance shows special bond between the band members.


4. The band members are shown well behaved and dressed smartly which suggests they are professional.


5. The direct address towards the audiences makes the audiences feel the band is singing just for them. Direct address is personally and emotionally involved in this video.

Things I like about this video

• The singing- as in this video the artists are shown more focus on actually singing than focusing in the camera.


• The settings of the performance- showing how the band completely dominant the entire place.


• Mise-en-scene of the performance is the best!

How successful was the video?

• It was number 1 twice in England 1963.


• Still in the UK this song is the biggest selling single of the Beatles.


• The song was not that popular in USA.

Analysing the music video

Glamorous narrative/thematic song by Fergie!!!


The song have a story of how an artist saying how luxury her life is.Overall the meaning of the song illustrates that no matter how famous she is. She is still the same girl that she used to be before she was famous.The song also suggests that fame will never change her and who she is.

The vedio is considered as a narrative type as Fergie includes a story of how her life changed from being normal girl to a super star.The song have a repetitive theme of luxury living which suggests with a right dream and attitude people can live the life Fergie lives. The Direct address towards the audience is very effective in this video as Fergie tries to convey her fans that nothing is impossible.

The things that I like the most is

• Fergie attitude and the way she lures the audience to listen her and how successful she is.


• Mise-en- scene is the best! As these is the main element which symbolises the luxuries in the vedio.

How Famous was the video

• Ferige's Glamorous was debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 in January 2007.


• The song was also debuted at 56th in the UK singles chart and peaked at 6th for top 10.