Music video Analysis

analysis:
- Starts in audition room (flash dance)
- Speed of dance increases as song increases
- Inter-text analysis
- Lots of dancers large number of people
- A lot of focus on physique
- 1st minute don't know what she looks like
- Released intwined with Bridget Jones Diary
- Empowerment of women
- Song and dance routine
- Sequence from a musical
- Iconographic approach using a vinyl
- Judges look very formal, looking down their nose at the dancers
- Diegetic noise of footsteps on floor, traffic outside
- Fragmented body shots
- Creates a sense of anticipation, an Enigma
- Patronising judges; "In your own time'
- Camera position : Notion of looking
- Foot level shot
- Movement of the camera to keep with the dancing
- Over the shoulder shot
- Movement of the camera matching the lyrics
- People flocking giving her star status
- Close-up shows her winning over hardest to please
- As the chorus starts people running in creating a carnival style
- Always framed in the centre of the shot
- Judges represent patriotic order
- She breaks that down by kissing him
- Changes of clothes
- She's placed higher up than other dancers
- Yellow hot pants emphasises her physique
- She leads the way
- American theme all the time
- Leather jacket symbolic of rebellion
- Dancing of cars
- Tightly framed
- Choreography + camera echoing lyrics
- Low angle shot, medium long shot, chromeaky shot
- Dark, raining, dancing wet