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.