1. Characters
The character on this music advert in a magazine
is a woman, Ellie Goulding, the image of her is a
close up on her face and she is looking away from
the camera, this establishes who the artist is at
first glance. She is wearing minimal make up and
nothing on the image is dramatic, this tells us she
is from the pop genre. It looks as if there is glitter
in the background in her hair; this is because the
title of the track is ‘lights’. There is not a lot of
colour in the advert which again shows us that the
music is going to be of a pop genre
Narrative events
It is difficult to see the narrative events on a still
image, due to the image being a close up and the
main character looking away it would tell the
audience that she likes being on stage and being
dramatic! I think this because of the black
background which represents the dark stage and
the glitter around Ellie Goulding show the lights on
the stage and her being in the middle of it all
performing. However the main protagonist doesn’t
look very happy which could show a relationship
that has gone bad or another problem that she has.
Iconography
The only iconography is
the glitter around her
head following her hair
line which shows the lights
that she must be singing
about as the name of her
track is lights, again the
black background could
show us the dark stage
that she is performing on.
The dark colours could
show the unhappiness
that is shown in her facial
expression
Setting
The mise en scene is very
simple there is not a lot
going on in the frame.
There is just a black
background with Ellie
Goulding as the main
image and glitter around
her hair and following the
flow of her hair. The dark
colours could show the
unhappiness that is shown
in her facial expression.
The black background
represents the dark stage
and the glitter around Ellie
Goulding show the lights
on the stage and her being
in the middle of it all
performing.
Technical and audio codes
The close up on Ellie Gouldings face shows that she is unhappy and the theme of the song is
going to be quite serious and not fun. On one side of her face there is high key lighting and low
key lighting on the other, this makes us feel like there are two sides of her and the song is going
to be about her good side and her bad side.
