Textual Annalysis by Hayley

The music video i chose to do is  Britney Spears - Everytime. I chose this video as the lead singer is female and would relate to our music video. This song also has a theme of love in it. Britney stars as her self in the video and her video goes with the lyrics.

The video starts with a crane shot of a the city and hotel Britney is staying in. There is then a shot of Britney on a billboard showing who she is in the video. You then see shot of paparazzi and her inside the limo and this shows how famous she is and the males reaction to her fame. Throughout this you are focused on Britney as she is dressed in white and can always see the emotions on her face. There is a underneath shot of the paparazzis face which portrays them to be scary and threatening.

When they reach the hotel room, there is a series of shot reverse shots of the couple arguing and showing emotion throughout. The emotion of anger is shown by the smashing of props. There is then a sexual element when they both take off their clothes in different rooms, mirroring each other actions. Britney is shown wearing white and against a white background this suggests heaven and death. The fade in the white light shows her dying and looking at her dying self, showing the audience that she is having an outer body experience this represents weakness of the female and the pressures she is going through.

The narrative of the video is that Britney gets hurt when hassled by the paperatzi and argues with her boyfriend and collapses into the bath resulting in her dying in hospital, at the end of the video we see that non of it really happens. Through the song you constantly see and feel the emotion that the singer is going through making the video interesting for the audience to watch.