Rihanna's music video for "Wait Your Turn" is a conceptual video with no clear narrative or other performers. It is filmed entirely in greyscale, conveying a dark and mysterious mood. Scenes take place in a church and on rooftops, with very minimal props or setting details. Rihanna is dressed entirely in black and wears sunglasses, hiding her emotions and adding to the mystery. Camera angles are mostly close-ups and from low angles, showing Rihanna as powerful yet enigmatic through her facial expressions and overlapping superimposed images. The video aims to depict Rihanna in different lights and personalities shrouded in darkness and mystery.

1. Comments on mood and style.

2. Rihanna – Wait Your Turn
This video for “Rihanna – Wait Your Turn” is a conceptual video
because it does not have a clear narrative and there is not much
performance in the video besides her singing the lyrics which is
usually a typical convention for most music videos. The video is
filmed in greyscale which already conveys a dark mood and theme to
the music video. She is the only person that appears in this video and
she does not have any dancers or actors in the video. Some parts of
the video is set within a church, some parts on top of a building and
other parts in a location which is not very clear to the audience so
this portrays a sense of mystery because you cannot quite tell where
she is. There is very minimal mise en scene within this video and the
only things that indicate her where abouts is when she is in the
church there is a throne like chair she is sitting on which looks quite
religious and church like. You can also tell she is in the church
because she walks down the alter and the windows are big like
church windows however although she is in a church the image she is
portraying is still dark. Churches usually connote to the audience
religiousness and holiness but in this video the church is dark and
she is wearing all black which makes it seem quite sinister, there is
nothing in the lyrics which relate to why she is in a church so she
could be trying to portray to her audience a deeper meaning.

3. Rihanna – Wait Your Turn
Her costume in this video sees her more covered up
than usual and only shows her stomach in two scenes
of the video but in the rest she is covered not
necessarily head to toe but her neck is covered at one
point when she is wearing a polo neck dress and the
scene in the church she is fully clothed and you cannot
see much to her not even emotion as she is wearing
sunglasses as well. Her make-up is very dark and the
lighting is very minimal as well so a lot of shadows are
created, in my opinion I think the whole concept of
the video is mystery because you rarely get to see her
eyes in the video. At one point you can only see into
one of her eyes because she has an eye patch this could
be her showing that she has two sides to her
personality because in another shot you can see that
there is only light shining on one side of her face
which creates a double sided personality effect.

4. Rihanna – Wait Your Turn
A lot of the camera angles are close-ups, medium
close-ups and low angle shots, she wants the
audience to focus on her face and her facial
expressions yet she wants to depict herself as a
powerful person because low angle shots
conventionally show superiority. There is also a lot
of super imposition being used where you can see
loads of different images overlapping each other this
relates to the sense of her trying to show herself in
different lights and her trying to show different
images of herself.