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1. Taylor Swift – Wild Dreams music
video Analysis
The genre characteristics are pretty stereotypical for a Taylor Swift music video
as there always seems to be a male character in her videos. The lyrics are also
similar to her other songs: they are about love. The theme of romance, passion
and dreams carries on throughout the whole video till the end. This effect is
achieved by the slow chorus with violins and drums to give a relaxing vibe and
to give the audience the ide of the genre of music. The video has a storyline of
two actors filming a film in Africa and she falls in love with him day by day. This
therefore is narrative based. The relationship between lyrics and visuals is
connected and it is quite obvious for the audience to understand the story. The
slow music and violins and drums link to the beautiful African scenario that
includes bird eye views from the plane with waterfalls and safaris with animals
such as lions. These all add to the romantic and dreamy feel. There are close
ups of the artist to show the more intimate scenes and part of their relationship
such as the kissing scene or the bed scene. Emotions are conveyed to the
audience through this which reinforces the lyrics and the theme of love and
passion. There is also reference of the notion of looking as we can see that the
actor and Taylor are being filmed. They then see themselves on the big screens
of Hollywood including the posters all over the theatres. There also is
intertextual reference as the actor used in the video is a real life actor and
recently was in a romantic film.