This presentation analyzes the music video for the song "Téir Abhaile Riú" by Celtic Woman. The video features the group performing the traditional Irish song live on stage in costumes representing early 1900s Ireland. Throughout the video, the lighting remains a consistent purple hue, changing briefly to red at the end to signify that the story of the song, about a young woman seeking love in town, has been resolved. The live stage setting and camera shots focus on Celtic Woman and help promote their music to the large audience attending their performance.

1. Téir Abhaile Riú
By Amy-Ann Edwards

2. Introduction
Welcome to my presentation. The song that I have chosen
is Téir Abhaile Riú by a group called Celtic Woman. This is
one of my favorite music videos and I am hoping to base
my music video on this song. Its not everyone's cup of tea
but I hope you enjoy the video and the presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7XO7gICAo

3. Costume
• In the video all the characters and band members are dressed in simple
dresses. Their style of dress refers to early 1900’s as can be seen by the Irish
dancer in the music video
• The Irish dancer is wearing tap shoes which goes with the genre of Celtic/Irish.
Usually in an Irish music video there are dancers doing the Irish jig or some
form of Irish dancing
• Lisa Lambe the one wearing the brown dress. The colour Brown gives
connotations of being down to earth, warm and friendly which is clear when
she is singing about going to town so dance with the sailors.

4. Lighting
• The lighting does not seem to change during the song. The lighting is purple
which suggests that the lyrics are important it is important.
• Because the video is set on a live stage the lighting will change depending on
the content of the song. In this case the song is about finding love hence the
colour of purple which is a colour that we associate with passion and royalty
• The lighting does change for a split second only to red. The colour Red gives
connotations of anger but in this case it means that the song is over and that
Lisa has found love.

5. Props
• There are many musical instruments on stage including the pin
whistle, drums, violin. All instruments that we associate Irish
music with.
• Lisa also plays the spoons which is seen in Ireland to be a
great talent. Again another prop that we associate with Irish
music.

6. Setting
• The song is set on a live stage but the song is over 300 years
old.
• We can see it is set in an auditorium jam packed with people
who have come to watch Celtic woman perform.
• By having live shows the artist is able to promote their music
and sell albums.

7. Shots
• The most common camera shot in this music video is the
medium shot and long shot so we can see who is on the stage.
The three members of celtic woman are centrally framed
which means they are the most dominant figures in the music
video.
• In a live stage music video the arc shot seems to be used
quite often which signifies the world in which these three
women live.

8. Movements
• A tracking shot is the movement that is the most dominant in
this music video also the panning shot appears to be the most
popular movement used in this video as it is a live stage
performance

9. Other Information about
the video

10. Narrative
The music video is about a young girl who wants
to go to town and dance with the sailors and her
two sisters wont let her go but they do eventually
dance with the sailors till dawn.

11. Thanks for
watching!
Any Questions?