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  • Identify a rage of shots and lyric used in uptown funk

Enhance
  • Analyse why these shots, movements and angles are used in the video to create meaning

Excel
  • Link camera to lighting, colour and mise-en-scene and how these elements of media language create meaning for the audience 


1. Connotations of the settings are that its pink, pink sand dunes? kind of in a heart shape, suggests feminism wearing sorts and a vest suggests its hot 
2. The artist is singing about love (being the only girl in the world)


Shot                                      
  • Mid
  • Close-up
  • Extreme CU
  • Long shot
  • Extreme long shot
  • Establishing 
  • POV
Angle                                  
  • High
  • Low
  • Dutch
Movement                          
  • Pan
  • Tilt
  • Tracking
  • Zoom (in/out)
  • Hand held
  • Focus Pull
Uptown Funk
Shot name: Long shot
Why are they used: To show the characters and the setting
Why are they used here: Shot of dance choreography & Bruno Mars as the featured artist (positioning) 

Beyonce
Shot name:
Why are they used:
Why are they used here:

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