Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Telephone - Lady Gaga & Beyonce
Brief List of Conventions Used:
  • Intertextuality - Thelma and Louise and Kill Bill
  • Narrative - though not main focus, main focus is on effects
  • Establishing shot - prison
  • Low angle shot - makes prison fence appear more domineering, unescapable
  • Font - 70s graphics - old style, yellow and pink, feminine, strong and bold, 'girl power'
  • High angle shot - CCTV narrative
  • Tittilation - lesbian erotic
  • Iconic costume - old fashioned prisoner costume
  • Point of view shots
  • Breaks 30 degree rule
  • Temporal spurts
  • Realistic mise-en-scene - juxtaposes ellaborate costumes
  • Phallic symbols (represents male genitalia)
  • Breaks 180 degree rule
  • Product placement
  • Unrealistic camera work - visual trickery
  • Close up emotion - more obvious moods displayed - there's no dialogue like in films
  • Intimate/erotic camera work - high angle-cleavage, low angle-crotch
  • Sense of performance
  • Dancing
  • Stills - fast jump cuts, like photographs
  • Split screen
  • Narrative characters join artists

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