R kelly ft Usher- Same girl

Same girl

The same girl is a song by r Kelly featuring usher, we decided to use this as an additional song analysis to our blog because the video has similar themes to our chosen song. Same girl is about r Kelly meeting a girl, he’s in love with this girl and decides to introduce his good friend usher to her, but this is were the twist begins as usher confesses to be in love with the same girl too.

As the song unfolds usher and r Kelly sing about how the girl has betrayed both of them, their both shocked by this same girl because in the stories they tell and the times they’ve both spent with her they assume it was all fake.

R Kelly gets on his private plain and goes to visit usher were they sing about how they first met her. In the video of our chosen song brandy and Monica argue and debate over one boy,where as the same girl by usher is different in how they both react to the situation. Both videos are similar in the fact that it’s about to people singing about the one person their both in love with.

Usher and r Kelly’s music video is also similar to our own created video in the way that an unexpected twist is conveyed at the end. In same girl usher and r Kelly plan a plot against the girl were usher arranges to meet the girl and r Kelly walks in to surprise her, this plot only goes wrongly when we see that the girl they have been talking and planning this plot against is actually an identical twin. So instead of the girl being shocked, Kelly and usher are the ones who get shocked because the other twin walks in to the date unexpectedly and leaves usher and r Kelly speech less.
This is the official Link for the "Same Girl".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9Swasp73w

Split screen of Usher and R Kelly (and girl)

Medium Shot

Close up

There are many different editing and camera techniques used in this video, which gives us an insight to how we can make our video more effective.

- Split Screen - this used on several occasions in the video. They first use split screen when Usher and R Kelly are speaking/singing down the phone to each other so we can see each character. Also when they are both describing the same girl they have three screen, one showing Usher on the left, the girl in the middle, and R Kelly on the right in different locations.

- Over the shoulder shot – This is used when both Usher and R Kelly are together in the same scene and show each other talking/singing to each other and this is done in a pattern where they will do an over the shoulder shot then change to a medium shot of both characters, then back to an over the shoulder shot.

- panning – is used when both male characters are sat on the floor to show how each other a reacting, and also it zooms in so we can have a closer look at there faces.

- Medium shots and Close ups – medium shots are used often in this video, due so we can both see Usher and R Kelly together. But at points in the video especial towards the end of the video when they are in the grey room, they cut to close up shots of their faces when they are singing.