Club Tropicana – Wham!
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Mise-en-scene
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The video
features the main characters of the music video in nearly every shot in the
video.
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Sound
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There is 30
seconds of ambience at the start of the video this is done to show how secluded
and exclusive the resort where this music video is set is. The rest of the
sound is the song which plays for the next/remaining 4 minutes of the song
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Camera
Angles
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The majority
of the camera angles which are used when the artists are singing in this
video are close ups and long shots (which show the full bodies of the
artists). Mid-shots are used on artists, when they are not singing, and the
other main characters in the video. An establishing shot is at the start of
the video just like it would be in a film, setting the scene.
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Transitions
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There is a
frequent use of cross-fades in this music video. They are used to emphasise
the passing of time and changes of scene.
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Narrative
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This music
video really just follows 2 groups of people, 2 guys (who we later discover
are pilots) and 2 girls (who we later discover are air hostesses), on their
holiday. Despite occasionally trading glances this video doesn’t follow the
traditional pop cliché of a guy chasing after a girl, even though if you were
to look at the list of characters for this video you could get that
impression.
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Titling
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The titling
of this music video is similar to that of a film. This is because it has
titles at the beginning for the name of the song (the equivalent of a film in
this sense) and the main stars of the video. There are also credits at the
end which list the cast, cameraman , editor, producer, director and record
label (which would be the equivalent of the production company)
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Textual analysis of a music video: Club Tropicana - Wham!
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