Monday, 25 October 2010


Love The Way You Lie - Eminem ft Rihanna
Brief List of Conventions Used:
  • In sync
  • Montage used in replacement to dialogue
  • Flashbacks (not chronological, no temporal continuity)
  • Artists featured
  • Narrative
  • Extreme close ups - intimite camera work
  • Sense of realism
  • In and out of focus - spontaneous implied
  • No stage/sense of performance (broken convention)
  • Two worlds collide - artists and actors join
  • Actors mime "I'm leaving you" "No you ain't!" (broken convention)
  • Fire (also code for passion, love, desire, pain, destruction, anger)
  • Addresses the issue of violence/abusive relationships
  • Tittilation - actors become arroused by violence
  • Point of view shots
  • Rihanna sings looking into the camera
  • Tilting
  • Panning
  • Iconic costume (Eminem)
  • Tracking

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