Media Analysis of Ed Sheeran's song - Give Me Love

1. Ed Sheeran – Give me love
analysis

2. Mise En Scene
• - run down building
• - the main girl in the music video is wearing a t-shirt, tights and a
skirt.
• - The tights have holes in, suggesting that she is homeless, the fact
that she is living in a run down building also fits with the idea that the
girl is homeless.
• - Pictures of happy couples

3. Camera Work
• - Extreme close up on arrow
• - close up on girl/angel
• - close up on girl/angel when she is dancing
• - close up on couples
• - tracking shot following the policeman into the run down building

4. Editing
• - flashing lights are used in dance club.
• - flashing lights off police car, this is used at the beginning and end of the
music video, when the police are entering the crime scene, the shot at the
beginning and the end are similar, with the policeman walking into the
building and the girl/angel lying on the bed/mattress.
• - There is use of a Eyeline match shot, this is used when the girl/angel is
aiming her arrow, we then get a shot of the person that she is aiming for
walking down a tunnel; this could also be classed as a jump cut as it jumps
from her aiming her bow and arrow to the target walking away from her.
• - Jump cut is used near the end of the music video; this is where the
policeman is walking into the building and it jumps from him walking in, to
the girl/angel dancing and back to the policeman repeatedly.

5. Gender
• The main person in this music video is a girl, who struggles to find
love; for herself but helps others find love.
• Sad love story, however the Girl finally falls in love with a policeman
at the end of the music video.

6. Ethnicity
• - The main girl in the music video is white british.
• - The police man is also white british.

7. Sexuality
• - The main person in the music video is female.
• - The other people in the music video is a mix between males and
females.

8. Propp
• - The policeman is the hero who the story revolves around.
• - The angel/girl is the girl/princess.