Off with your head, dance till you’re dead,

heads will roll, heads will roll, heads will roll,

on the floor

My music video does not always have direct matching

connotations to the lyrics but there are some links. When

the first lyric ‘off with your head’ is sang there is a close

up, slow inward zooming shot of the females head so this

section of narrative does link to the lyrics. The repeating

lyric ‘heads will roll’ holds connotations of danger and

forewarning an upcoming event which is why I chose to

use the same shot but with different framing each time,

starting on a medium close up and ending on a long

shot. On the last shot (which covers the whole of ‘heads

will roll on the floor’) the knife, e.g the danger, is

revealed and there is a downwards tilt showing the floor,

linking back to the lyrics of the song. This camera

movement also provides a great transition to the next

scene which is from the past, allowing the audience to

recognise that time has changed. This method of

switching between times is quite conventional and

allows the audience to experience the ‘story’ in a non

chronological order. This makes the video more

entertaining and should be consumed by the audience

in its intended way due to its conventionality.

This opening sequence allows the audience to guess at

how the narrative will pan out and captures their

attention as they want to see how it will end.

Looking glass, take the past, shut your eyes,

you realise

The lyrics here work in conjunction with this section of the

narrative. The line ‘looking glass, take the past’ matches

up to the part of the narrative where Kate is sat thinking

about the bad side of her relationship with Jack and she

wants to forget the past and let go. This is my

interpretation of the lyrics and hopefully how my

audience will see it with the help of my visuals. When the

lyric ‘shut your eyes’ is sang the girl shuts her eyes in time

with the word ‘shut’ , linking the lyrics and narrative

together. The entire verse in general also compliments

the narrative as the girl character is deeply thinking

about the past and her relationship with Jack and is

finally starting to realise that the relationship is falling

apart. This makes my narrative true to real life and

relatable as often people in similar situations do not see

that what is happening (domestic violence) is wrong

and should not be tolerated but are ‘blinded’ by

remaining love.

This sequence helps to build the narrative (through the

lyrics and visuals) and allows the audience to

understand Kates thoughts and feelings towards the

situation through her body language.

Glitter on the wet streets, silver over

everything, the glitters all wet, you’re all

chrome, you’re all chrome

Although the lyrics in this sections of the video do not

directly link with narrative there are slight components

which draw the two together. The line ‘silver over

everything’ is sang whilst Kate is tracing her finger over

the knife and so there is quite a literal link between the

knife and ‘silver’ but there is no specific meaning behind

it, it simply aids the progression of the narrative. Whilst

the lyric ‘the glitters all wet’ is sang the accompanying

shot is of the girls cut finger and dripping blood. This links

with the use of glitter as blood in the original video as I

also thought this line had a more sinister meaning when

conducting my lyrics analysis. I wanted to use the

references to glitter as an innuendo for blood to help

represent my narrative.

This sequence helps to portray Kates change in state of

mind and develops our understanding of the character

as she’s no longer thinking properly.

Off, off, off with your head, dance, dance,

dance till you’re dead (repeated several

times)

For these sections of the song I focused my shots on

performance, particularly dance, and tried to make links to

the song within the dance moves. When the lyric ‘with your

head’ is being sang (several times) I have often used shots

of the girl grabbing her hair/head which provides a direct

link to the song but also reflects the crazy and hyperbolic

nature of the entire lyric, expressing the frustration and

anger held by Kates character. The lyric ‘dance, dance,

dance till you’re dead’ also has a direct link to the shots of

Kate energetically and ‘crazily’ dancing, which is the

representation I got from the lyric. The girls body language

and facial expressions also link well with the irrational and

crazy connotations, expressing her feelings of confusion. The

camera shots I have used also help with this as I have used

a range of framing and camera angles, such as a canted

angle. This shot is conventionally used to show confusion

and so the audience should understand this to be a

purposeful technique.

This sequence again helps the audience to develop their

understanding of Kates character and why she is behaving

in a strange and irrational way.

On the ending sequence of the video (which uses the same

lyrics) I have also made a direct link to the lyrics. Here the

shots are focused around Jack laying dead which finally

shows the reality of Kates unstable behaviour. This clarifies

the result of the opening shots and finally allows the

audience to understand the whole story/narrative.