Textual Analysis

Textual Analysis on George Ezra: Blame it on me.

Camera Shots:


              The first camera shot that there is is a truck driving down the road. in the truck there are a few people, they are wearing yellow balaclavas. The camera follows the truck and pans with it until it camera hits the main person in the video, George Ezra. There is the a close up of a man saying 'Are you sure you want to follow the yellow brick'. This shot shows who the man is, and he also speaks a different language.Then there is a long shot, which shows both the old man and George Ezra. Its not particularly clear why the man says what he says, but it could have something to do with saying 'are you sure you want to continue on the path that you are on.' Then they go separate ways, and the music starts. After this there is a medium shot of the protagonist of the music video, the camera pans around him, as he is singing, showing every side of him. A couple of shots later there is a birds eye shot of George Ezra, it is mimicking a bird excreting on him, the shot they use kind of makes you feel like you are the bird faeces , falling on to him, how ever nasty that sounds. These shots, all happen quite close together, with a shot not lasting for more then 10 seconds at most.


Lighting:


          Throughout the video it is light, you can see everything, the light is natural going on high key. The light goes with the happy tune of the song, if it was a happy tune and the lighting was low key, it wouldn't make much sense, and the same with if the tune was a dark one and the lighting was high key and bright. The lighting is also quite soft and nice, not harsh. Its also not too bright, you can see all the colours in every shot, without being blinded by too much light.


Mise-en-scene:


          In the video, there is something to look at in every scene. The clip is aways full with objects, like cars or other people, and there is always a building or two in the background, including the protagonist himself. There is never a shot where there is nothing in it, the shots are full of colour and different objects. There is more shots of objects then people, apart from George Ezra, who is pretty much in every shot.


Sound:


          The sound in the video is mostly non-digetic, the music isn't actually there, they cannot hear it, but there are some noises which are digetic. Noises such as the cars driving past, and the gunshots and George Ezra getting hit by the car, are all noises where you can see the source that the noise is meant to be coming from, those noises are digetic. However, the singing from George Ezra is a bit of both, digetic and non-digetic even though the music that he is singing to is a non-digetic This is because there are some clips in which you can you can see him singing, which is digetic, and then some scenes where you cannot see him singing and the noise becomes non-digetic.

X-Factor Contestants Task

In this clip there are two teenagers, being and 17&18. These two have been put on the television broadcast of the show because of the way they act on stage. They don't have a very good attitude towards what they are doing. They have the interview, and they way that they do it, the audience can tell that they are not going to be very good. The way they talking is quite 'chavvy' and not very proper. When they get onto the stage they take a while to get started, the audience boo's them before they even start to sing, which makes one of the girls shout "Shut Up!" to the audience, which just makes them laugh at the girls. One of them then storms off the stage.

Classes

       In this article teenagers and young adults are being represented in a very negative way. This is the underclass, people who are unemployed or career criminals, these people are rioting, and destroying things around them. The main focus of the picture is the boy in the black hoodie, and he even seems to be carrying a sword. You can tell the that it is a bad representation because it even says 'Feral underclass'

This man is most likely a underclass man. Although he is wearing the pinstripe suit, he is unemployed and has live in a council house for 33 years, so he doesn't pay rent. He has hoarded so much rubbish and lives in it. He sleeps anywhere around his house from other pictures that I have seen, he does leave the house as well but not very often.

This is from 'Everybody Loves Raymond'. On this clip the man is being represented as a very clumsy man, setting fire to his house. He is on his own in this scene, in a way saying that he is unable to cope on his own without any help from anyone, most likely getting that he needs the help of a woman, and so this is a negative representation of men in general, maybe he was doing something else as well as cooking, which would play on the stereotype that men cannot multitask.

This movie clip is from the Inbetweeners movie. It gives a bit of a negative representation of young adults, because they are trying to get girls, as if its the only thing that lads their age do. It also says that some people will do anything to get a girl, or a lad. This is kind of true but only to a certain extent, not everyone does what these boys do in this movie and so it is unfair that they represent teenage lads of their age.

For race in television shows/films black people are usually the first to die, this is seen as a funny thing to happen to them, this is a negative representation of black people and is quite unfair towards them. They have the mick taken out of them in a lot television shows and films.

The film, the Lion King represents sexuality. Scar is seen to have many homosexual traits during the film, in the way he acts and his how he is represented against his brother Mufasa and it shows a negative representation of them when Scar takes control of the pride. When he does, the land around becomes filled with drought, the food disappears, and the lionesses do not respect him and don't treat him as one of the pride members. This can be seen as a homosexuals inability to reproduce. When Mufasa was king the land was all green and the animals were happy. And when Scar dies at the end of the film, it starts raining, extinguishing the fire and making everything green again, this can be seen as the heterosexual triumph over homosexuals.