Ed Sheeran- A Team
Lyrics:
Ed Sheeran wrote this song after helping at a homeless shelter and hearing about a women called Angel that was helping there too. She was a heroin addict and took up prostitution to support her addiction. He called the song A Team to imply how she was addicted to class a drugs and showed that it caused her to be homeless and is struggling to live.
Cinematography:
There are shaky camera movements to show her waking up to the shaky unstable hostility of the world and that she is unstable with no one to support her with her life. Lots of close ups of the girls face are used to clearly show her expression to see how she is feeling as it is a music video so she isn't speaking and her face is showing how she is feeling at those points in her life.
Editing:
The whole music video is in black and white to go with the mood of the song as it is quite serious and emotional, so the effect on it conveys that. The camera cuts in time with the music with quite long shots to go with the slower, more calm, pace of music.
Intertextuality:
There is no intertextuality in this video as it is telling a story that the artiste has heard himself about some he's met so is sharing her unique story, telling it through the song and video.
Narrative:
The music video is a narrative style following the life of a homeless girl who is driven to prostitution to support her drug addiction. The story shown in the video relates to the lyrics of the song and is used to show how life is for people with no money or a home and how hard life can be for them.
Star image/ brand:
Ed Sheeran is a big well known artist, known for being down to earth and liked by his massive fan base. He is represented as a kind and caring person in the music video when he buys a magazine from the homeless girl and sits to talk to her for a while.
Voyeurism:
The audience are watching the girls life unravel, on the journey from her being homeless at the start of the video, to getting a drug addiction, starting prostitution to make money for the drugs and how her life changed even more from those choices.
Ed Sheeran wrote this song after helping at a homeless shelter and hearing about a women called Angel that was helping there too. She was a heroin addict and took up prostitution to support her addiction. He called the song A Team to imply how she was addicted to class a drugs and showed that it caused her to be homeless and is struggling to live.
Music:
The song is quite a calm, slow pace and the only instrument you hear along with the singing is a guitar which is what Ed Sheeran is known for and goes with the contemporary style of the song. The slow pace also goes with the lyrics of the song as it is telling quite a sad and serious story, sop an upbeat style of music going along with this message would not be appropriate.
The song is quite a calm, slow pace and the only instrument you hear along with the singing is a guitar which is what Ed Sheeran is known for and goes with the contemporary style of the song. The slow pace also goes with the lyrics of the song as it is telling quite a sad and serious story, sop an upbeat style of music going along with this message would not be appropriate.
Genre and mise en scene:
The genre of this song, like all Ed Sheeran songs, is pop. The girl is wearing old looking clothes, liked ripped tights and an old hoodie, and has a sleeping bag wrapped round her at the start to show that she is homeless and doesn't have any money. The girl is quite pale, looking cold and ill from sleeping outside and taking the drugs, she is also fairly young as she is vulnerable and still quite young living alone without a home. The video is set in multiple locations such as, a park, down a high street, a dirty public toilet, the side of a road and in a hotel room, all locations where the girl goes following her life and what she has to do throughout her day. Even though the whole video is in black and white the lighting in the beginning is lighter than it is in the end to portray how her life is getting darker has it spirals more out of control.
The genre of this song, like all Ed Sheeran songs, is pop. The girl is wearing old looking clothes, liked ripped tights and an old hoodie, and has a sleeping bag wrapped round her at the start to show that she is homeless and doesn't have any money. The girl is quite pale, looking cold and ill from sleeping outside and taking the drugs, she is also fairly young as she is vulnerable and still quite young living alone without a home. The video is set in multiple locations such as, a park, down a high street, a dirty public toilet, the side of a road and in a hotel room, all locations where the girl goes following her life and what she has to do throughout her day. Even though the whole video is in black and white the lighting in the beginning is lighter than it is in the end to portray how her life is getting darker has it spirals more out of control.
Cinematography:
There are shaky camera movements to show her waking up to the shaky unstable hostility of the world and that she is unstable with no one to support her with her life. Lots of close ups of the girls face are used to clearly show her expression to see how she is feeling as it is a music video so she isn't speaking and her face is showing how she is feeling at those points in her life.
Editing:
The whole music video is in black and white to go with the mood of the song as it is quite serious and emotional, so the effect on it conveys that. The camera cuts in time with the music with quite long shots to go with the slower, more calm, pace of music.
Intertextuality:
There is no intertextuality in this video as it is telling a story that the artiste has heard himself about some he's met so is sharing her unique story, telling it through the song and video.
Narrative:
The music video is a narrative style following the life of a homeless girl who is driven to prostitution to support her drug addiction. The story shown in the video relates to the lyrics of the song and is used to show how life is for people with no money or a home and how hard life can be for them.
Star image/ brand:
Voyeurism:
The audience are watching the girls life unravel, on the journey from her being homeless at the start of the video, to getting a drug addiction, starting prostitution to make money for the drugs and how her life changed even more from those choices.
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