2. The music video of ‘all of me’ represents John Legend as a mature and serious
man as this song represents his serious love for his actual wife who is seen in
the music video. The black and white filming effect adds to the effectiveness of
the representation as it sets the scene and gives it a bit of an old vibe.
John Legend is shown throughout the music video playing the piano which
shows the audience that not only is he a good singer he is also a very talented
performer as it shows some of his talents in this one video. This was made
possible by filming the music video in the style of a performance video.
3. John Legend connects with his audience by involving his real life wife in the
video. This connects with the audience because the fans like to keep up with
the current relationship news with all their favourite stars. The song is about his
love for his wife and involving her in the video makes the video strong because
it shows the fans their love is real and genuine.
If John Legend was to use an actor instead of his wife the fans might not have
been connected with the song because the lyrics are about love which they
could have thought it was a song just about love and not his wife but the
involvement of her lets them build a emotional connection with the narrative.
4. The song is from the R&B genre and some of the conventions in the song show
this to the audience. For example, the greyscale effect throughout the music
video helps evoke emotion from the audience as dark colours evoke emotion
which add effect to the soft tone of the song that was made to evoke emotion.
The greyscale is more on the white side as this helps soften the imagery shown
in the music videos as the sense of natural lighting adds to the reality of the
video.
The song is very slow which relates to the term that these R&B songs are
usually referred to ‘Slow Jamz’ as this song follows a strong narrative plot
which is love and it includes a co-star that happens to be John Legends wife
Chrissy Teigan.
