Ghetto Gospel - 2pac
Brief List of Conventions Used:
- Point of view shot, sirens, helicopters
- Conventional image and costume - baseball cap, hood up
- Establishing shot, urban
- Defocussing effect
- Hand held camera, realism
- Montage to build a character's profile - no dialogue
- No artist featured (Tupac is dead, Elton John not featured)
- Drugs
- Time continuem - starts and ends in the same place/time
- Temporal leaps - jumps around in time
- Graphic match - face to sun
- Pathetic fallacy - rain, dark
- Fade to black
- Series of establishing shots - church juxtaposes city
- Intimite camera work
- Serious issues addressed - poverty, gangs, drug abuse, death, religion peer pressure, crime
Fine but the central focus should be on the actual conventions of music video and how they are present or otherwise in this one.
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