shawn mendes - stitches

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Page 1: Shawn Mendes - Stitches

Music Video Analysis

Page 2: Shawn Mendes - Stitches

Shawn Mendes - StitchesStyle; performance, narrative, mixture, cameo

- Performance – Throughout the video Shawn is singing to the camera

Camera;shots, angles, shot length, movement

- There is a long shot of a car driving into a car park and parting at the beginning- A medium-close up shot is used on Shawn as he gets out the car and starts to walk away- Long shot is used when he falls to the floor after being ‘hit’- Medium shots are used as he is thrown to ground and gets up- Close up shot on his legs/feet as he gets up off the ground- Shots from the front and back of Shawn. Most of the shots are in front of Shawn so you

can see his face but when he is punched and hit, there are shots of the back of Shawn when he is hit making match on action shots

Editing;pace, cutting, special effects

- There are some past pace cutting and editing in the video – when Shawn is being beaten up

- The cutting is in time to the music- Tracking and crane editing used to track the cars movement - Match on action as Shawn is thrown through a wall

Sound;diegetic, non-diegetic

- All diegetic sound – the car, the singing and music

Page 3: Shawn Mendes - Stitches

Shawn Mendes - StitchesMise en scene; Costume, lighting, acting, make up, props, setting, colour

- Shawn acts as though he is being beaten up. He is ‘punched’, pulled across the car park, head slammed into a car window etc

- Bruising and cuts can be seen on Shawn’s face making it seem more believable that he is being beaten up although no one is physically beating him up

- He is dressed in dark clothes: a black leather jacket, a grey shirt and black jeans. This shows that it is a dark, sad and hurtful situation and song.

- The video is shot in a car park. Shawn parks the car in the dark and shadowed area, resembling pain and hurt, when he walks towards the daylight he is knocked down and pulled back resembling him not being able to get over the girl who broke up with him and hurt him, even when he tries to run towards the light.

Representation - He is finding it hard to get over this girl after a break up, stereotypically it is the girl who has troubles getting over a relationship.

- End up feeling sorry for Shawn as he is hurt so much we are shown what he is feeling like inside because of him being ‘beaten up’, the cuts and bruises (although when he washes his face all marks disappear so we know that’s how he is feeling inside)

Message - A break up from a relationship is like being torn apart and beaten up as there is the constant feeling of being hurt and pain as things remind you of the person you broke up with, the only way you can stop the pain is trying to get over the other person but sometimes there is the sensation that something is pulling you back so you can’t get over them.