all the good girls go to hell billie eilish

1. all the good
girls go to
hell – Billie
Eilish
Scope Vids

2. • The music video begins with a black screen and
no sound.
• This only lasts for 1 second before we get a MCU
of a girl’s back who appears to be Billie Eilish.
She is hunched over with around 8 hands with
black, wrist length gloves ripping her white shirt,
exposing her bare back.
• The black gloves connote this to be a lab. Billie’s
white shirt signifies something innocent of
angelic, whereas the contrasting black gloves
connote the sinister side.
• There is a lack of saturation and not very bright
lighting. This signifies something sinister.
• For the first 5 seconds, there is the sound of
heavy wind blowing, but not whistling.
• In this shot, there is diegetic sound of the shirt
being ripped off, but it’s exaggerated and
heightened for effect.
• This shot only lasts 1 second.

3. • Then we get 2 black flashes, connoting some ellipses, before we see the MCU, 8 hands in black gloves again each sticking a syringe into Billie’s back.
• This anchors something sinister and the lab setting.
• There is diegetic sound of the syringes going into her skin, but yet again it’s intensified.
• There is a couple black flashes before we get another short take of the thumbs about to push the liquid or drug into Billie’s skin.

4. • This take is probably the shortest of them
all.
• After another black flash connoting
ellipses, we get a CU of the syringes in
Billie’s back and her back moving as if
the drugs are taking control of her body
or as if her body is trying to fight the
drugs off.
• When the screen is flashing, there is the
sound of a light flickering.
• After another few flashes, we get another
CU of her back with the syringes in it and
we can also see black veins through her
skin connoting something dark and evil
taking over her body.

5. • Next we get another short take of a CU of Billie’s shoulder blade with
something twitching inside of it.
• The lighting is very low and there are prominent shadows.
• The next 6 shots are of ECUs of something coming out of Billie’s
shoulderblades. It gets to the point of where her skin is stretching until it rips
open.
• As this goes on, we get more exposition of what is coming out of her which
appears to have feathers.
• Throughout this sequence of scenes, we get exaggerated diegetic sounds of
the wings growing.

6. • Next we see a low angle of the wings growing out of
her back and then a tighter frame of the same thing.
• These two shots also have the exaggerated diegetic
sound of the wings growing.
• After that, we get a black screen for 2 seconds,
growing the narrative enigma.
• During the black screen, we get a faded up non-
diegetic sound of wind blowing again.

7. • The next shot is a bit lighter, showing a grey
cloudy sky.
• This lasts for 2 seconds before what appears to
be an angel falls from the sky.
• This obviously signifies Lucifer as he was a
“fallen angel” giving this song religious
connotations which anchors the title of the song
being all the good girls go to hell.
• The wind sound continues and then we get the
diegetic sound of something falling through the
sky.

8. • Next, we have a tracking shot of
the angel falling through the sky
with the exaggerated diegetic
sound.
• This then goes into another still
ELS of the angel falling through
the sky.
• Yet again, we have another
tracking shot with the camera
shaking.

9. • The next 3 shots show the descent
to a dark ground which initially looks
like it signifies Hell.
• Yet again, we have the exaggerated
diegetic sound of the angel falling
through the sky.

10. • The angel lands in a swamp of petrol with two lamp posts near it which don’t provide a lot of light.
• The setting is very dark signifying Hell and all things dark and evil.
• We get exaggerated diegetic sound of her landing in the petrol swamp.
• We then get a cut off with the sound and a black screen for 3 seconds. Towards the end of this shot, there is a fade up of
sound of a rumble and a sound of liquid.

11. • Here we have the first long take
which is a total of 42 seconds.
• For the first 18 seconds of this
shot, there is only diegetic sound
of the fallen angel in the petrol
swamp.
• At 45 seconds, we start to hear
the song all the good girls go to
hell.
• The camera angle starts off high
and tracks down until it’s a mid
angle and then tracks around
Billie and her wings until it’s a low
angle.
• This is the first scene where we
see her face even though she is
covered in oil.

12. • The next shot we see is 1 minute and 8
seconds long, which is unconventional for a
music video with a young target audience.
• This shot starts off as a MS where we can
properly see Billie’s face and we can see she
is wearing completely black contact lenses,
giving her a devilish connotation.
• As she’s walking towards the camera, the
camera is moving away from her until we get
a LS so we can see her entire body and the
wings.
• The camera then pans round her a full
rotation so we are able to see her wings
drenched in petrol until we get to her face
where the framing is tighter and we get a MS
again.
• Throughout this long take, the lighting goes
from very dark to back lit by flames and fire.
The fire starts burning on the line “all the
good girls go to hell” and explosions happen
on the beat drop before the chorus. This
anchors the Hell connotations.

13. • The next shot lasts for 8 seconds.
• We see an ELS of Billie on the left third of the screen and flames following the line of petrol on
the floor until it sets her wings on fire, yet again, on the line “all the good girls go to hell”.

14. • The last shot is another long one lasting 1 minute and 4 seconds.
• It starts off with an MLS where we see Billie’s wings come alive to get rid of the flames on them.
• When the wings are struggling more to get the flames off of them, the camera moves into an ELS
where we can see a lot of the background as well.
• Towards the end of the song, the framing becomes tighter again and we get and MCU of Billie where
we can clearly see her evil black eyes again.
• She then turns and walks away from the camera as the camera moves up to give a high angle.
• When the beat drops there are more explosions in the background and we can also see figures of
women dancing sensually in the flames. This anchors the name of the song being all the good girls
go to hell and the line “’Cause even God herself” showing female empowerment and the post-feminist
movement.