Real Media Texts

Beyoncé- If I Was a Boy
The narrative (what story occurs)	Settings	Number of shots	Transitions used	Representations seen?
The song is about a relationship and the problems involved. It also involves how men should treat women in a relationship in everyday life from a women’s point of view.	It was set in a city of the working class meaning that the audiences could relate to the video. This can help people to connect to the music video and particularly women as they are stereotypically seen to have been in the same situation as the narrative.	This music video had a lot of shots in and used a lot of close ups and low angles on the artist Beyoncé make the audience more aware as to who the artist is. In other videos such as Calvin Harris’s song Summer there would be a lot more shots because the music is more upbeat even though they could be classed as the same genre. 117 shots were used.	Not many transitions were used except at the end there was a fade to black used. The song was a negative song and ended on the problem in Todorovs theory so this transition may have been used to highlight that it is still on the negative and the problem has not been solved.	Men were seen to be not caring much for their girlfriends/partners and seen to not treat them correctly as they would tend to flirt with other people.

Calvin Harris Ft Ellie Goulding- I Need Your Love
The narrative (what story occurs)	Settings	Number of shots	Representations seen?
The narrative is that Calvin and Ellie play the characters of which who are a couple on holiday and they film their holiday and leave their cameras around to let other film themselves.  This is more of a positive song and it is about the girl expressing her love for the man and ‘needing his love’.	This looks to be set in America because they have certain shots which have an American Flag in the picture and also have foreign motorway signs.	The number of shots in this video is high because it is a fast paced song and in order for some lyrics to match the song it is important that quick cuts are made so it looks in time and looks good. Again there is a lot of close ups and extreme close ups on both the artists so the audience are aware of who the artists are and promotes them. Point of view shots are also heavily used in this video due to it being from their perspective. 130 shots were used.	The representation in this video is that the women is seen to need the man more because she is the one who is singing the lyrics. However this is a positive song and the male is not made out to be an antagonist.

Eminem- Like Toy Soldiers
The narrative (what story occurs)	Settings	Number of shots	Representations seen?
the song is based on a past-time of the artist, a dramatic part of his life, He raps about how problems occurred with other rival rappers, and also about how his friend and fellow rapper 'Proof' was shot because of the fighting that followed the problems between each other rappers lyrics being aimed at one another in an offence way.	This video does not have much of a setting because it uses montages from other rappers and does not show a particular location. He sits in a dark room a lot in the video which connotes maybe that he is going through a dark place in his life at the time.	The video used lots of shots from different places and used lots of close ups and extreme close ups of the artist rapping (Eminem) which again can help to promote him as an artist. 187 shots were used.	The artist is represented in an aggressive way in this music video which is seen my swearing and his body language. He gives off an angry feel to the audience and the lyrics match this.