Research (music Video)

Music Video research

Lily Allen - Smile
Ska/Pop

Genre Signifiers:
The bright coloured clothing and make up worn by the artist
Lots of closes ups of the atist singing, posing towards the camera
Artist wearing make up, hair sytled

The lyrics are illustarted by the visuals;
for example:
Lyrics - "just sat by myself all day" - Visuals - Artist sitting on her own
Lyrics - "now your calling me up on the phone" - Visuals - Appears to be the ex-boyfriend she has been talking about now on the phone
Lyrics - "it makes me smile" - Visuals - Artist smiling

The music is illistrated by the visuals;
for example:
- During the chorus the music gets faster, and what is going on in the visuals gets fatster, as more action occurs. The camera moves faster
- At the beginning of the song, when the beat first starts, she chews the chocolate to the beat
- During the music video, the camera cuts on the main beat of the song

There are close ups, showing the artist, they show her face clearly, showing her make up and they show clearly her clothes. This is amplfyinh her image, as her main image is being unique. They show her colourful clothing style and she is wearing dress and trainers with lots of jellewery, head scraves, which is what she is well known for wearing.

Lily Allen in her other videos, wears simular clothes, bright dresses, bright shoes, bright scarfs in her hair

Most of her other videos (e.g Alfie, LDN). Show her acting out the lyrics, and showing it to be narrative. There are also usually many Ms of her lookin into the camera.




However her usual look, is not in the 'Littlest things' video. The video is in baclk and white not showing her usual bright coloured look. Her look is alos differnt it is more sophisticated than her usual unique brigh coloured look. SHe is wearing simple jellweery and her hair is in a neat formal lookin bun.She is alos werain a coat with a coller making her looking smart. However the same MS of her singing into the camera is used throughtout.

There are many MS of her showing her lookin at the camer and the top half of her dress. It is used a a repeated image, a visual hook.

There is references to the notion of looking
While the people she has paid mug and beat her ex boyfriend in the video she watches laughing round a corner out of sight to him.

The video is mainly narative based