Music video analysis

Analysis of Lady Gaga - Just Dance

This music video contains approximately 192 shots throughout, 105 of these are 'Meat shots' where the artist (or main artist if in a band) are the main focus of the shot.

This video uses a large amount of medium shots, these show the storyline or events of the music video while focusing on Lady gaga as the main artist. This video cross cuts between footage of the party scene and lady gaga dancing and singing the lyrics throughout the music video. The video uses high angles to reveal people on the floor. this shows lack of power, while when the low angle is used to look up at lady gaga, this shows how she contrasts with the other people at the party as she is superior in comparison to them. At the star of the video, someone is carrying a music player and is shown to be pressing the 'play' button. However this is shot using canted framing to show that something about the frame or video is unusual. The video also uses contrasts in lighting, the start of the video uses bright lighting, this could relate to the time of the party that this is earlier on in the night as the more the video goes on the darker the lighting gets, again possible in relation to the progression in time.

The speed of this song relates to the video as when the sound in the song speeds up, the video footage has been edited together faster. However most of the song is fairly fast paced and quickly edited together, the shots of the fast paced part of the video are in the second set of screen grabs.

The video relates to the music as the song is about a party and dancing, these images are illustrated in the music video.This song is taked from Lady gaga's first album, the icons of this video are lightning bolt and disco ball, these images are used in throughout the video.