Monday 11 September 2017




Dua Lipa-New Rules   https://youtu.be/k2qgadSvNyU


The music video “new rules” by Dua Lipa has a series of aspects in terms of camera work visual affect mise en scene and so on. All while telling a story. Right from the beginning you can see the camera work by starting with a close up into Dua Lipa face, slowly zooming out where you see her lying on a bed as she talks about how she talks in her sleep at night and how it makes her crazy. As this music video is based upon her and the one she loves she is clearly talking about how he makes her feel crazy. The next shot is a long shot as you get 5 singers in the shot. Also, they could give off the impression that they are a bit crazy from the way they are completely still but perfectly in sync showing no emotion. Which goes well with the lyrics. The song then goes on to talk about the rules she tells herself to help her stay away from this boy she is obsessed with.  Starting with rule one she attempts to reach out for the phone but is stopped by a backing singer this goes from a medium close up to a long shot. Where she then backs up but with the camera coming in close to capture her face in a medium close up. As she goes on to finish rule 3 she leaves the shot while the camera is left in a close up on one of the backing singers faces. The next shot the has Dua Lipa in a long shot with all the backing singers we have seen so far all in the hall way going into a hand stand as Lipa runs through the middle. This shows a bit of mis en scen as she is also sing (while she does this) “I’ve got no rules” and this goes well as they are clearly showing they don’t have to follow any rules. Then the next shot starts with a close up that goes into a wide shot. As soon as that shot ends it geos start into a close up again, going into a long shot this happens again in the next shot as they go from a close up to wide shot. Once that shot ends they change to a beach scenery which again goes well with what they are sinning as she repeats “I’ve got no rules”. As the video come to an end they have about a 5second period of a close-up shots. Before they go into a long shot instantly changing shot, into another long shot.

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