This music video for "Ni**as in Paris" by Kanye West and Jay-Z was filmed at a live concert performance to give viewers an immersive experience. Long continuous shots from within the crowd make it feel like the audience is present at the show. While most of the video is in black and white to maintain a consistent style, color is incorporated through flashing lights. Perspectives alternate between the stage and the crowd to give different views of the performance.

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2. This warns the audience that the video has been identified by epilepsy action. As the audience already
knows that the artist is Kanye west they can predict what the video will be like. Some people may not be
able to view this music video of it and therefore makes the audience slightly smaller.
This warning fades in and out, warnings like this are usually shown before films and rarely before music
videos, the audience notices this preparing themselves for the video that they are going to watch.

3. The artist name and song title some up in white outline with the background of the crowd. This is a
smooth transition to the video as it cuts to what the scene would be but without the overlaid text,
as it stays in black and white which continues the continuity.
There are long takes throughout the music video makes it more realistic as it feels as though the
audience are there watching them live.

4. This changes to colour showing the audience the coloured lights used and as many of the shots are
dark it would make the music video unclear and pointless. A mirror image, this makes the audience
disorientated as they are used to a normal shot type. The shots have been taken in the crowd
immersing the viewer, not many other music videos have used a shot like this or a live performance
as their official music video, this differs from the conventions of the usual hip hop music video.

5. This is a realistic shot showing the artists performing to a crowd, this makes the audience feel as
though they are on stage with Kanye west. The shots used throughout the music video are very
similar, this is a common theme with hip hop/ rap music.
As the music video seems to be filmed at a live show the change in perspective gives the audience a
different look as they view it from both the stage and crowd.

6. The sound clip from ‘blades of glory’, Will Ferrell’s character is trying to explain what “lady humps”
are, as they use the film clip for the sound in this part of the music video it was pre filmed meaning
they have to use the shots that they were given. The rest of the sound comes from the song ‘ni**as
in paris’ by Kanye west and jay z.

7. Again the shot has been mirrored with overlays of buildings and wild cats, the dark silhouette of the
crowd are at the bottom continuing the look as though the audience are in the crowd. The long
takes are broken up with the lights flashing this seems as though the shot has changed but in fact its
an allusion.