The second story board I created included still shots from Lady gaga’s music video you and I, I discussed what they represented and how all of sound, camera shot type and mise-en-scene were linked. I decided to analyse this video because it completely contrasted with the Foo fighters music video as it has more of a background story and focuses more on this than the actual band itself.
This is an example of a long shot and captures the desperation of Lady Gaga running to find her lover. This search for her lover is reinforced by the use of the non diegetic soundtrack in which she repeats continuously the words ‘you and I’. In terms of mise-en-scene the use of location, which is completely deserted and isolated, teamed with the use of Lady Gaga’s black costume paint a bleak picture of the artist’s life without her lover and ultimately enforce her loneliness and how deserted she is without him, the use of black demonstrating negativity, such negativity mirroring her life without her lover. 
This second shot is an example of an aerial shot, it captures the whole of the artists body and helps play on the almost mystical theme of the video as well as the various supernatural elements where we are able to directly see Gaga, by means of this shot, yet are unable to fully understand her or her story through the video because she is ultimately superhuman (a mermaid) and therefore we are not given proximity to the action or emotions in the music video, as a close up would have allowed an audience to do. In terms of mise-en-scene the use of low key lighting represents how miserable her life as a mermaid, linking in with the whole of the story behind the music video where Gaga is unable to be with her lover because she is a mermaid and he is a human. 
The intensity of this shot is captured by the use of an extreme close up. This makes the shot appear more intimate and passionate because only two ‘characters’ are occupying it and because nothing else is included in the shot such as other props or even the location it makes the audience feel they are personally involved in the romance, being ‘taken’ in the moment as much as the characters are and therefore unaware of all other surroundings. 
This is an example of a long shot and captures the artist’s vulnerability at being alone or not with her lover. This is reinforced by the use of positioning as by capturing the artists back it presents her vulnerability whilst her body language suggests she is surrendering, perhaps surrendering to the fact she cannot live her life without her lover. In terms of mise-en-scene such a notion is played upon by the use of low key lighting which gives the setting an element of negativity which once again reinforces the darkness of the artist Gaga’s life without her lover whilst the use of a white costume connotes her vulnerability and innocence, linking back to her arrangement as well as submitting like body language. 
This mid shot of the two lovers presents the artists dream: to ultimately marry her lover and live happily with him however because she is a mermaid she is unable to do so. The use of white costumes for both characters represents their innocence at falling in love and being unable to live together however the almost neon tint of the white is used to give the shot a surreal look so as an audience we are aware this is only Gaga and her lover’s dream and can never amount to anything more. The use of low key lighting presents the unhappiness of the artist at not being able to be with her lover and therefore the reality of the situation, the dark location connoting negativity and enforcing the couple’s dismal circumstances.
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