music video - Foreplay. Task 8 pt 5

Foreplay - Jalen Santoy

Longshot of two people, stood in an open field. There is a considerably large distance between them and they are facing in opposite directions. There is a pink faded into blue gradient layered over them. All of these opposites between them contradict. The distance between them shows there problems as a couple and how different they are.. They are both facing different ends of the field, this connotes that they want different  things within their lifes; with different goals and futures.
The colour differnce layered over them creates a mood that blends vunrability and strength.

Low shots are shown whilst he begins rapping along, stood alone in the filed. This ties in with theorist Dyer and his idea of stardom. We are seeing this process through the clothes he wears and the way he presents himself as an up and comming artist. The label are creating an image for the artist. 

The lyrics start 'First he tell you that he love's you'

There is an imediate climate change, switching from open wide fields to this seductive shot.
I LOVE THIS SHOT. It exactly shows how I want to film my video. I want colour and brightness, no real natural light but something so much more.

The camera follows her walking into the club, its the same girl from the open field. It then cuts to fast pased shots of girls flipping their hair and dancing, this sets the scene.

The music video begins flipping between shots of the girl alone in the club and small takes of people dancing, showing lust and romance. This is then contridicted by shown back to back with shots of Jalen Santoy ( the guy at the begining) by himself and with a friend. This shows that he is batterling with himself whether he wants to be with her, or by himself. This continues untill the end where the music stops and she begins speaking over, she is shouting at him, abusing him. He begins responding and there is a slight argument. she calling him not a real man.
This continues untill his car stops and he slowly falls out of it. There are yellow flower petals covered over the concrete floor. The colour yellow during the middle ages was used as a symbol of mourning the dead. Jalen's brother died in a car shotting by a police office. Jalen falling to the ground into the yellow petals demonstrates not only the mourning of his brother, but making a statemnet about the discrimation of black people in America and the problems curently happening with the police.