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Analysing Music Videos – Applying Goodwin's Theory By Karla Costa

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Analysing Music Videos – Applying Goodwin's

TheoryBy Karla Costa

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Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran – Everything Has Changed

This music video is structured as a narrative video. There is a clear story behind it where two young children who symbolise Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are falling in love. They are experiencing school and are exploring childhood together.

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Link Between Visuals & Lyrics

Whilst all the other kids re in the background, blurred out, the main focus is on the two kids who run out of class. “open up the door for you”

“And lead me there tonight”, he shown to be taking the girl into the hall.

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The Demand of Record Label

At the end of the video, the record label is presented. This is great publicity for the label due to the fact that it is advertised to the large number of views of the audience that watches this music video.

This record label will hold a certain reputation that requires this song and video to fit into. As a result of the record label being a smaller company, they are less likely to take risks than a larger company. Big Machine Company is based in Nashville and mainly specialises in country artists and therefor explicit video would not fit into to their companies image.

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Visuals This video is set in a school location and as a

result of there being a large number of people featuring in the video, the editor has blurred out the other kinds who are less important in the video and placed the main focus on the two main characters who appear to have a childhood crush. Although “everything has changed” as when Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift feature in the video at the end, they are no longer in love, their children have taken their place.

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Ariana Grande - Focus This video is a performance. The artist

features in it throughout and is the main character. Ariana Grande also changed her close when she changes location.

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Link Between Visuals & Lyrics “Focus on me”, the artist is shown to be taking a picture of herself as if she is someone of high status, demanding attention.

“I’m about to put them all away”, her hand movements are as if she is moving something away from her, a fleeing action.

When “Focus on me” is repeated, a group of women are dancing but due to the fact that she is wearing less than the others, the attention is on her.

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Link Between Music & Visuals

When the sound of the chime is heard, she winks at the camera.

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Shows Voyeurism Ariana Grande is wearing a

provocative outfit and is also in a sexual position which can attract the interest of many as a result of its sexual nature.

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Fifth Harmony - Work from Home ft. Ty Dolla $ign

Finally, this music video is in the form of a performance. The band are shown to be dancing and singing in many different locations and costumes.

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Link Between Visuals & Lyrics

“I just need your body”, her hand movements that run along her body is a sexual message to the men that are working.

“Can you make em clap”. “Take it to the ground”. The girls are slowly moving down

towards the ground in a sexual way.

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Link Between Music & Visuals

The choreography is well adapted to fit into the music.

Every time the song reaches the chorus, the camera focuses on the whole group rather than just one where they are synchronized.

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Intertextuality The name of the song and the artists

are placed on the outer packaging of bricks at the start of the video for publicity.

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Voyeurism These women are on a building site

where they are dressed in revealing work cloths surrounded by topless, sweaty men. Whilst dancing, they are shown to be dancing in a sexual manner to entertain the audience. The women are seen to be trying to get the men’s attention by dancing in this way. They are also using the object used for building as a dancing companion which is indicated on the tractor. By dancing like this they are acting as if they are sexual objects for the men.