Music Video Analysis

For some reason when I thought of this assignment, Taylor Swifts song, "Love Story", popped into my head. I remember it being such a story based video. Now that I look at it again, I see that it is a narrative, but I also believe it could be a little conceptual because the main girl in the video is forming concepts that this scenario could/did come true. The visual elements include pretty dull/ natural colors throughout the whole video. The light given is always noticeable. There is one outside and dark scene in the video that still shows a good amount of light for being outside. The video seems to produce the same 'shape' in the different angles of the video. Many are repetitive. I think the shape of the angles shown for us change towards the climax of the video, when Romeo comes back for Juliet. The change of angles and shape in the video relates to the change or twist in the story. Some key moments include the beginning, where you know that the female character is 'dreaming' about this scenario with her crush. Once they photograph the dream part, it has many different angles and views of the characters. They photograph close up, far away and close in, have views from below, above, and right next to the characters. The camera has a lot of movement. This story is very dramatic, therefore, dramatic and different camera angles help keep you intrigued on watching the video, as well as giving different perspectives throughout the whole thing. The video follows the song, especially in the time frame that the song lyrics are describing.