Taylor Swift: You Belong With Me
Camera Work
Long shot: sets scene of the two houses, shows that the two protagonists are neighbours.
Eye level throughout the video, as if the audience is an onlooker.
Panning shot: When the boy is on the phone, pacing back and forth
Medium shots mainly to make it seem natural and everyday
Long shot: sets scene of the two houses, shows that the two protagonists are neighbours.
Eye level throughout the video, as if the audience is an onlooker.
Panning shot: When the boy is on the phone, pacing back and forth
Medium shots mainly to make it seem natural and everyday
EditingThe words of the song fit in with the actions of the characters e.g. ‘you’re on the phone with your girlfriend she’s upset’ whilst he paces his room on the phone.
Ellipsis: Fades out at the end of the first chorus then fades back in on the second verse to show that it is the next day.
Expansion of time: shows his phone conversation from lots of different angles to show that it is lasting a long time.
Shot/reverse shot: when they are communicating from their windowsMainly continuity editing to create naturalism and to show a progression of events
Plays the same scene twice, but with different actions (the park bench scene) where we see what she wants to happen and what actually happens
Mise En Scene
Setting: stereotypical American neighbourhood and high school
Typical characters i.e. the ‘jock’ and the ‘bleachers’, iconography e.g. ‘geeky’ glasses and football uniform, dating a cheerleader
Stereotypical storyline, the friend likes the ‘jock’ but never tells him, similar to romantic films, where there is equilibrium (being friends), disequilibrium (she likes him) and equilibrium (they get together at the end)
Stereotypical storyline, the friend likes the ‘jock’ but never tells him, similar to romantic films, where there is equilibrium (being friends), disequilibrium (she likes him) and equilibrium (they get together at the end)
They write on notepads to communicate from their bedroom windows
Typical teenager – looking in the mirror, different stereotypical looks i.e. Goth etc.
Singing into a hairbrush, dancing around the room, again typical stereotype
She is shown reading and sitting alone showing ‘unpopularity’
Wears a white dress to the dance connotations of purity and innocence, whereas his girlfriend wears red, with connotations of anger and lust.
Fairy-tale ending
Typical teenager – looking in the mirror, different stereotypical looks i.e. Goth etc.
Singing into a hairbrush, dancing around the room, again typical stereotype
She is shown reading and sitting alone showing ‘unpopularity’
Wears a white dress to the dance connotations of purity and innocence, whereas his girlfriend wears red, with connotations of anger and lust.
Fairy-tale ending
Sound
Some of the lyrics of the song she speaks to make it look like she said them, however no one hears them. For example at the end when she says to him, ‘you belong with me.’
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