Textual Analysis - Videos

The Script – We Cry

Mise-en-scene

• The city
• Natural lighting
• Artificial lighting
• Urban – Graffiti
• Normal, everyday clothing
• Streets, tramlines, terraced houses

Editing

• Intro – Fade In, slow motion of child on bike
• Fast cuts – different people/locations
• Straight cuts- throughout

 Sound

• The song music
• Singer’s voice

 Camera Angles

• Close up – singers face
• Hand held camera – sense of realism
• Tracking – walking (continuous throughout video)
• Over the shoulder shot – over the singers shoulder
• Group shot – of the band
• 360-degree shot – goes around the band performing
• Extreme close up – singer’s lips
• Two shot – mother and child

Representation

• Rain – symbolising crying
• Reflecting harsh city life
• Ambitions
• Liabilities
• Teaching children right from wrong
• Adult’s inner child