The video I want to analyses is the music
video of the song, XO by Beyoncé.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xUfCUFPL-8
For this clip, most scenes were filmed on
Coney Island's Cyclone roller coaster, the rest were from Beyoncé's concert at
the Brazilian festival Rock in Rio at Rio de Janeiro in 2013. For all the
scenes include only Beyoncé are with medium close-up shots. All these shots focused
her face and the camera moves as she moves to keep her face in the middle of
the lens. The shots are perfectly matched to the rhythm of the song. The clip
starts with some medium close-up shots of Beyoncé. As the rhythm became high, the
scene of the clip changes to be on a roller coaster with some combination of
low-angle shots and high-angle shots. These shots exaggerate both the height
and the inclination of the roller coaster to reflect the rhythm of the song. For
the scenes filmed from Beyoncé's concert at the Brazilian festival, there are
two impressive scenes. The first one is a low-angle shot from the ground to Beyoncé
on the stage. This shot makes her looks taller and also like a god (idol) for
the audience. The other scene was shot right behind her on the stage when she
was interacting with the audience. This one is more like shooting straight
against a wall that consisted by her fans which produces flat compositions with
little sense of depth in the frame. I feel like this one kind of drag the crowd
closer to her to interact with her. There is also a scene that shot a boy
dancing from the ground. It used two angles, one was a reverse angle from a
position that even shorter than the boy, and then moved to the ground as a
low-angle shot to change the perspective to show the boy as the core of the
scene.
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