Media Analysis of Ed Sheeran's song - The A Team

1. Ed Sheeran – The A Team

2. Mise En Scene
- In this music video the main girl in the video is shown as homeless this is
shown because;
- she is sleeping on a park bench
- torn clothes
- the black and white colour in the music video gives the idea of pain and
suffering as well as sadness; this also gives the idea that for her the world
is bleak.
- During the music video, the girl changes into revealing clothes which
shows us that she doesn't have many options to earn money.

3. Camera Work
- The camera follows the girl, the main focus of the music video.
- Two shot of the girl and Ed Sheeran, who wrote this song
- Close up on the sign 'improving the angel' which fits with the lyrics
as in the song, the girl is referred to as the angel, 'its too cold
outside, for the angel to fly.'
- There is a close up on the girls face.

4. Editing
- Time Lapse of everything around her e.g. Cars and People, this gives the idea that she's watching the world go by, as
she is sat struggling to get by.

5. Gender
• Main person in the music video is female
• Couple of male people in the music video including Ed Sheeran
• Mix of females and males during time lapse

6. Ethnicity
• Girl is White British
• Ed Sheeran is White British

7. Sexuality
• Mix of females and males, however main person in music video is
female, who is homeless

8. Propp
• The girl in the music video; following Propp’s belief that there are
seven different types in stories is the princess/the girl.

9. Levi Strauss
• In this music video there is binary opposites such as
- Innocence/Corruption
- Appearances/Truth
- Age/Youth
- Reality/Fantasy

10. Goodwin
• Links between the lyrics and the visuals e.g. ‘Long nights, strange
men’ – she goes with a stranger to a hotel room for money.
• Notions of looking – when she is dressing herself up in revealing
clothes
• Narrative Based

11. Frith
• The Music Video is a Narrative Video which shows the life and
struggle of the main character and it shows the measures that she
goes to go get money.