Nine Frame Analysis

Here is the nine frame analysis of a pop music video called 'Lovebird' by Leona Lewis. I choose this song because our chosen song is about love and this video opening could help us with some storyboarding ideas.  

There is an establishing shot of mise-en-scene so that viewers get a feel of the singers surroundings and really get to know the storyline and the theme of the song, for example the song is about lovebirds and leona is in a bird cage. I notice the light shining directly onto the cage to draw our attention to the main feature. Leona is also holding the bars of the cage almost as if she is trapped and cant get out.

It changes straight into an extreme close up enhancing the detail of the shot allowing us to see the lock on the bird cage. This again gives a clue that Leona is trapped in the cage and gives connotations of what the song lyrics might be.  In both shots now there has been a slight blue tint to the frame, this gives connotations that the song is a slow sad beat with maybe sorrowful lyrics as they have not started yet.  

It switches to a very fast more colourful shot, with Leona in bright pink, happy colours give hope to the song. This shot show more glamour and beauty with jewls and diamonds in a pattern on her face, this could resemble the colours and patterns on the feathers of a bird. This has changed from the dark caged shot we saw before, almost as if whatever was trapped in the cage has been set free. The style of the shot has changed from close-up to mid shot which flows nicely with the beat. 

We are back to an extreme close up but this time on the Leona's face she is not yet singing. Her eyes gaze from the ground straight into the camera giving a personal effect that the Leona is looking at you. The blue tint to the shot give continuity through the video it also gives the shot a cold and gloomy feeling. She also has shadow of lines running down her face like bars, maybe they represent bars of the bird cage in-keeping with the  lovebird theme, its almost like she is trapped in the cage.  

The shot goes back to a mid shot of the Leona in the cage. This really shows a wide range of shots in the same mise-en-scene so you can almost feel as if you are there yourself. The light coming from behind her really highlights the shape of Leona's face and body. When she starts to sing the light from behind really shows the movement of her lips and so your attention is drawn straight to her.

As leona has started singing the shot goes back to a close up. The lyrics she sings at this point is 'We were birds of a feather

            We were always together' these lyrics really reflects the shot with the horizontal lines reflecting on her face as we said before from the bird cage. Her eye make-up with the long eyelashes with the extended ends could represent the wings or feathers of a bird.

It has now switched back to the very first shot we saw in this music video, the establishing shot it also provides continuity. This could be her to remind us Leona is in a cage trying to get out. Her white shrug in this shot looks like wings of a bird implying that Leona is the bird.

Back to the extreme close up of Leona's face. In the extreme close ups they really show the emotions of Leona when she is singing, in this shot Leona especially looks almost sad and reflective. 

Finally the shot changes from its grey, blue tinge to a bright shot with lots of light and crystals dangling from above. This shot saws the shrug in a clearer light and it does again look more like the wings of a bird in-keeping with the theme of the lovebird.