2. Here you can see two shots that are not shown
often in music videos. They use of a blur effect
on the faces of these girls are effective as you
don't know what to think. Many times when
you see dead people or someone high on drugs
you normally get a slow motion shot for
death, and a fast pace bright shot for high. So I
think this shot supports some existing media
products as we haven’t done the normal effects.
Monica- Everything To Me
Artists Bow Wow and Monica
have use a similar shot to me. The
overlapping transparent shot.
This use of this shot is to show
things like flashbacks/forwards
My video etc. But here we have used it to
show a close up to what has been
Bow Wow Sell My said on the phone’s screen.
Soul

3. Looking at a variety of videos I
noticed that artist Chris Brown,
Nicki Minaj, Eminem ft Rhianna
and Alicia Keys all used the
common boyfriend/girlfriend
argument.
Artist Monica is
having an
argument which
turns into a fight
with a lady
In my video we challenged
stalker which is
the existing media products
pretty unusual.
as we showed an argument
happening between a lesbian
couple. This is very unusual
to see but we wanted our
video to show diversity. Also
it makes it realistic and there
has been more exposure on
gay relationships so we
decided to show this also.

4. Point of view shot is a common
shot when showing an argument
as you can see in Alicia Keys – If I
Ain’t Got You video, so we also
did this in our video as you can
see to the right. Unlike Alicia
Keys video our shot is not clear as
the couple started to fight.
Other similarities between my video and existing media products are:
•We used words for the chorus to emphasis our message, Kanye West also does
this for his ‘All Of The Lights’ video and Rihanna for her ‘Rude Boy’ video, yet
they do it for different reasons.
•We have a phone conversation that takes place, this is similar to the one shown in
Alicia Keys ‘You Don’t Know My Name’ video. In our video the girl is breaking up
with the boy but in Alicia Keys video she is trying to ask the boy out. So the actions
done by the characters and locations are different. Alicia Keys uses a piano room
whereas our actress is in a park. The actor Moss Deff is in a dimly lit room in a big
chair whereas our male is sitting in a dimly lit room over a laptop watching videos.

5. We also used effects like split
screens to show two things
happening at once. In our video she
showed drug dealing taking place
and to also start the video with two
of the actresses walking through a
park. Whereas Destiny Child use
this same effect but they show each
individuals story through the use of
split screen.
Our video is a narrative story this is similar to existing media products
such as Mary J Blige ft Ludacris- Run away Love. In this video they talk
about three girls and the conditions they are living in. My video is
similar to this as we talk about three girls and different relationships
they are in. Ones with a boy, a girl and drugs. The girl and drug
relationship challenges existing products but not the narrative style.
Pink- Family Portrait, Kelly Rowland- Soul and Kelly Clarkson- Because
Of You also uses narrative story.