This video tells the story of an abusive father-son relationship through the son's perspective. It starts with the father motivating the shots in dark lighting to set a mood of mystery. The focus then shifts to the son, shown in bright colors as he escapes his father. Though the video breaks conventions by not using voyeurism and having a male central character, it keeps viewers intrigued through its varied characters, colors, and lighting used to portray the son's emotions and reality.

1. La La La- Naughty Boy
ft Sam Smith
Rosie Ward

2. ▪ The video starts with an establishing wide shot of a door which it then moves towards. A
character then appears in the middle of the frame who stimulates the music when he puts
his fist on the table. We can tell that this is an important character as he motivates the
shot.The camera follows him where is abusing a little boy.The camera is then stimulated
by the little boy rather than him.This shows a shift in importance within the video.This
contradicts the stereotypes of the older generation being in charge and motivating most
of the shots.This little boy featured helps to fit music video by his actions fitting the
narrative of the song.This is due to him covering his ears and lip synching to the song.
Him blocking out his ears helps to stimulate the video due to the viewer not being able to
hear his dad shouting at him.

3. ▪ This video is set in a very ‘normal’ setting.The mise en scene of the characters within
it are dressed quite plain and basic.The dad is dressed is a red shirt.The connation's
of the colour red represent anger, war, danger, strength, ect. All these connation's
portray the characters personality effectively. His actions within the video help to fit
this again.The boy in the video is wearing plain duller colours.This helps to portray
his character.This is because from his costume we can tell that he is of a lower class
and mistreated.This is reinforced by his dad and his behaviour which stereotypically
the child would be effected badly by this. He juxtaposes this stereotypical view due
to him being positive and escaping his dad.

4. ▪ The lighting varies throughout this video.The lighting fits the different moods
throughout the video. At the beginning the general bad mood which is represented in
the dark, shadowy lighting. This lighting helps to keep the mystery of the video.This is
because its near the beginning of the video where we have only been introduced to few
characters.This helps to keep the suspense and keeps the viewer interested in the
narrative of the song.When the little boy escapes his abusive dad the lighting turns into
high key.This lighting represents the mood change between the scenes and starts to
explain the storyline and narrative.The little boy motivating the shots and lighting
shows his importance within the video.

5. ▪ From the boy motivating the shots, the colours used throughout are very
varied.The bright colours show his age and his naivety.The POV shots from
him are what he wants to see and this shows how he is escaping from reality.
This shows the stereotypical views of this kind of father/son relationship and
how he is able to escape.The conations of the bright colour blue are happy and
cheery scenes. This helps to effectively portray his age.These colours help to
juxtapose music video theory due to the images not fitting the lyrics which are
quite negative.The scenes shown are positive which is also effective even
though it goes against the theory.This helps to keep the viewer intrigued.

6. ▪ Many music videos contain an element ofVoyeurism.This video goes against this
due to the main characters being a man a little boy.Voyeurism is usually used with
women to aim the music video at mainly a male audience.This video is very
stimulating so can avoid using voyeurism in the video. Using interesting videos and
characters in this video helps to gain lots of views and from a wide age range due to
not including voyeurism which may be inappropriate for younger viewers.

7. ▪ Within this music video, they use many different characters. Each character
has an extreme close up taken of them.This shows that although the
characters don’t motivate the shot it’s a POV shot from the little boy’s
perceptive. It being a wide shot shows how important these characters are
within his reality. At the beginning his dad is shown in a far away shot which
shows his isolation.The many different characters within again helps to keep
the viewers interested as many characters within a stereotypical music video is
unusual.This helps to show how the situation he is put in and helps the viewers
to be able to relate.