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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