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Thinking of you
“Thinking of you” Katy Perry “Thinking of You” is
a song by American singer and songwriter Katy
Perry, taken from her second studio album, One
of the Boys (2008).
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The start of the music video is filmed with a handheld camera,
cutting to close ups of certain items in her bedroom such as the
cross on her wall, giving an idea that the video may include
something to do with religion. We then see Perry walk over to her
dressing table before the camera cuts to a close up of her face
when she starts singing. Her face is out of focus at first but fully
focuses within a few seconds to go with the calm, slow start of the
song. The camera is constantly moving slowly, panning down her
to show that she is holding her necklace while she is singing and
the camera also cuts onto important items she picks up/holds
such as the bible and picture of a man. Because of all the
religious items in the room, we are given the impression that the
man in the picture is deceased.
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The lyrics really go with the narrative of the video. Due to the lyrics we can figure out that
the man in the picture was her lover at some point.
The camera moves between her siting at her dresser and another man lying asleep on
the bed behind her.
“I guess second best is all I will know” – It cuts to a close up of her face as she sings
these words, showing the pain in her expression; this illustrates that she is still in love with
the man in the picture but is trying to move on with the man behind her.
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This is further proved when the
lyrics get to “When I’m with him
I am thinking of you”. The
camera cuts between her with
the man she’s currently with
and the memories of her and
her past lover. That technique is
really effective with the lyrics
and it ends up giving emotion to
the video.
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Katy Perry gives real emotional
expressions whilst she is singing, so it
adds to the sadness of the song and is
showing how much pain she must feel.
Whilst the camera is cutting between
the two couples, there is a close up of
the current man’s hand showing him
taking some sort of ring off. This straight
away gives the impression that he could
be an already married man, adding
further depth into the narrative.
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Throughout the song, the camera
always cuts back to a close up of
that picture to constantly remind
viewers that she is singing to him-
“I wish I was looking into your eyes”
The camera still constantly cuts
between her memories and the
present to show the contrast
between them both. She seems
happy and content in her memories
and now she looks distraught and
lost. In her memories she is outside
with her lover in the sun, riding a
bike and running around. However
in the bedroom she’s currently in,
the curtains are closed with the sun
shining through and she looks
trapped.
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An over the shoulder shot is used
while Katy is standing at the window. It
shows her memories of the place
she's looking at through the window.
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The new man comes up behind
her and starts caressing her but
we still se e her memories of the
same sort of situation happening
to see the contrast of how happy
she looks then to how sad she
looks now.
The different cuts between
memories and reality are really
effective to make the viewers feel
for the singer.
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We start getting black and white
flashbacks of her last lover in the war,
it’s black and white to perhaps give
connotations of how dark and sad the
situation is and also to make it look
more in the past.
When it gets to the part where he is
shot whilst fighting and falls on the floor,
Katy pushes her boyfriend off her at the
same time so he falls down too. This is
a very clever effective use of shots that
has been used to give an overall feel on
how distressed she feels.
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we can tell that the creators made the narrative fit completely with
the words of the song by the use of comparison between memories
and current reality. We get a sense that Katy used to feel all free
and happy whilst in the memories and now looks all trapped and
unhappy; it kept changing between them to show this and give the
viewers a better insight to the meaning of the song.
The cinematography has been used well to look close at Katy’s
expressions to show what she is feeling whilst singing. Her
expressions are an important aspect to the narrative as it shows
how unhappy she is.
The mise en scene is quite bright apart from the war parts, we see
a lot of sunshine, however, this goes back to the fact she feels
trapped and alone. In her memories she’s outside in the sun but in
the present she was trapped inside a house while the sun was
shining outside.