This music video tells the story of a love triangle between Keri Hilson, Kanye West, and Ne-yo. It explores themes of love, relationships, past and present through flashbacks. Special effects like characters shattering and split screens are used to represent the pain of heartbreak and frustrations in the relationship. Slow motion is employed to emphasize emotional moments and give insight into the artist's perspectives. The video aims to make the audience feel personally connected to experiencing the issues around the love triangle through close-ups and body language of the artists.

1. Updated A2 Preparatory Task
(Professionally produced music
video three)
By Jumana Yasmeen

2. Professional music video three
• Another music video I will be analysing is by
Keri Hilson ft Kanye West & Ne-yo- Knock you
down. The producers are Danja and Hilson. It
was released on the 7th of April 2009.

3. How is it similar to my potential
tracks?
• This track is similar to my chosen potential
tracks because it is about being content with
your life and getting yourself right back up.

4. What is the track about?
• The music track is about Keri being caught in a
love triangle with Kanye and Ne-yo. It is about
love changing your life and also your mindset
of love. It is about remembering the past but
remembering that the future is brighter.

5. Themes
• Love
• Love triangle
• Past
• Present
• Future
• Flashbacks
• Couples
• Relationships

6. Motifs
• There are a lot of close ups on the artists so that the audience can feel a
personal connection with them almost as if the artist is really experiencing
the issues shown in the video. It emphasises the artists emotional state
regarding the love triangle. Also, the artists falling in slow motion is repeated
quite a few times and this could represent the pain of falling down
(emotionally) and also how love is something you cant quickly get over. Slow
motions are used to emphasise a stressful moment and this suggests that this
whole love triangle is affecting her negatively.

7. Expectations
• The video conforms to Keri perfectly as most
of Keri’s videos are about the negative side of
being in love/relationship.

8. Narrative and performance based
• The video is narrative based because it includes flashbacks
which links to experiences which makes the videos more
realistic so that the audience can really relate with the
artist.
• It is also performance based with the use of the artists
falling in slow motion to represent the pain and also
connote how love is something you can’t quickly get over.

9. Mis En Scene
• There is a portrait of Keri, this represents romance as Kanye paints
Keri and this connotes how much he loves her and the fact that it is
a portrait represents that she will forever be on his mind connoting
how much she means to him. In the end, the three artists attend a
party, the other peoples faces are not really shown which suggests
that no one has been involved in ruining the relationship apart from
themselves which foreshadows that it is up to themselves to fix
their relationship.

10. Camera Angles
• There is a birds eye view of Keri on the bed, this is
done in a seductive manner suggesting that this is
meant to appeal to the male audience. The use of the
birds eye view is to represent Keri’s true perspective
and this is linked to us seeing her body language and
her body language is seductive which suggests that
she will carry on playing men.

11. Special effects/editing
• Visual effects is shown significantly in this video when Kanye falls and is shattered into pieces, this
connotes the extreme pain of relationships also, having nothing to live for if we don’t encounter
love properly. It suggests that he is heartbroken and this is shown in a visual way by breaking him
into pieces. There is also split screens in this video for example, there is a black and white picture
contrasted with a colour picture which shows the past and present of their relationship. This
subverts the audiences expectations as the black and white shot is where they are happy however,
in the coloured picture, it represents them being frustrated with each other. This all represents that
their relationship should have been kept plain and simple with only them being significant in their
relationship in order to be happy in their relationship.

12. Lip synching
• Lip synching is used throughout the whole video because it allows
the artists to connect with the audience, as it appears that these
artists are really experiencing the issues involved in the track even
though they are not. Also, there is lip synching when there is
confrontation between Kanye and Keri, this is used so that the
audience can explore the artists thoughts, feelings, emotion
through body language and gestures and the pain of love is
represented through this confrontation.

13. Target Audience
• Both men and female- Adults in a relationship
or even married going through rough patches.

14. How they are encouraged to buy the
record?
• The use of three big well-known artists in one
video is the obvious answer. Also, stereotypically
it is mostly men who cheat in relationships
however, in this video it is a female cheating so it
allows us to see the effects cheating has on men.

15. What ideas can I use in my own music
video?
• The slow-motion effect so that the audience can explore thoughts and
feelings of the artist in more depth. Slow-motion allows the audience
to see the significant moment in time which would be good to use as in
my own music video, it will allow the audience to figure out what is the
root to the situation and allow them to figure out the storyline
subconsciously.
• The use of the artist shattering into pieces to yet again allow the
audience to explore thoughts and feelings of the artist in more depth as
it emphasises the past experiences of the artist being painful.