The video we chose to analyze is Timberlake’s ‘What goes around …Comes around’. We chose this video because it is relative in genre to our song choice Brandy and Monica’s ‘The boy is mine.’ It also has the same general themes of love and betrayal.
Technical Aspects:
A lot of fast cuts and parallel editing between Timberlake and the girl shows the link between them.Which cuts away to him singing on stage. They also dissolve from scenes of there past by cutting from intimate scenes of him and the girl together to close ups of his face while he sings on stage. Low angled shots of him look superior.The pauses in the video illustrate the perspectives of the characters explaining the story. Parallel editing to operate a contrast between
The mis-en –scene looks like a 1940’s theatre with massive red curtains and the costumes people wear. There’s also a circus theme with the hula-hoop and fire .All the women have corsets and long sleeved gloves, stockings, hairstyle all vintage Hollywood looking fashions.
The swimming pool scene is the only part that deviates from the glamorous scenes of the theatre but in doing this it follows the narrative of the passionate relationship and theme of adultery. 'What goes around...Comes around' seems to be about a destructive; unhealthy relationship.Which is seen in images of distress and attempted suicide.
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