Ain't My Fault By Zara Larsson

By Lydia

Film Language • The music video uses panning shots, close ups and long shots. There

are a mixture of shots in this video there are a lot of long shots showing the artist and her back in dancers dancing, also lets you see where they are. The panning shots are the shots that go all around her and they show her dancing in an empty room. The close ups show her singing because this is a performance video so it is important.

Genre characteristics• ‘Ain't My Fault’ is a pop music video by Zara Larsson. This is a pop

music video there are many things that make this a pop video. • A key convention in pop videos is dancing and lip syncing. For example

in this video it start with her standing alone then she starts lip syncing. This is like most pop music videos. • Dancing and lip syncing can be seen in other pop music videos like in

Little Mix by Shout Out to my Ex.• Another common convention in dance music is having bright lights

and straight cuts between shots in the video to make it fast pace.

Mise-en-scene• The lighting in the video is dark and fluorescent. Fluorescent lighting

is used a lot in pop videos when they are in night clubs or they are in a plain room it make the room like more exciting. The lighting is to show it is night time. At the end the artist is shown to be standing in front of a plain bright blue background.• The costumes in the video are important in pop music videos in this

music video she changes outfit 3 times. Her main one is a long top and shorts and tights with thigh high boots. This is it typical pop music outfit because it allows them to show of the woman's legs.• The setting is a mansion showing that they have money.

Lyrics

• ‘I don't mean to be rude, but I look so damn good on ya’ these lyrics are sung to this person it is to show that she is saying she looks good with anyone she is dating.

‘Baby, one, two, three’ As she counts in the song she also counts on her hand. There is not much of the lyrics been shown in the song.

Representation of artist• The artist shows of her body and there are lots of shots of her from

behind, these shots are about showing her body off. There are also long shots that show her dancing.

• There are close up of but they are only so you see her lip syncing.

References to voyeurism • There is one man in the video and he shown upside and this is to

show that she, the artist has power over him. So the man looks scared.

Performance, narrative or concept based? • ‘Ain’t My Fault’ is a performance based music video. It has no

narrative and is not concept based, because most of the video shows them dancing. The meaning of the video could be that she isn’t to blame for things that go wrong in her relationships.

The performance: