The song i have chosen for my music video analysis is Lady Gaga-Paparazzi as it fits in with our genre and also i think the video is very interesting. The storyline to the video is quite unusual showing Lady Gaga with her partner they sit on the balcony and he pushes her off after seeing paparazzi it looks as if she is dead but she lives and shows her trying to kill him after what he did. The colour's of the video are quite light adding to the fun elements of the song.

The song doesn't actually start properly till 2:30 into the video. The first part of the video tells the story. There are a lot of shots of palm trees, a building, a chandelier and also a moving shot of a water fountain. Money thrown on the floor with images of Lady Gaga on, an establishing shot is shown of a bedroom the props and decor of the room give the impression that the character is wealthy. It seems a green screen has been used 2 minutes into the video of a spiral background showing the artist in the middle looking as if shes falling. This then fades into a birds eye view of her lying on the floor as she had been pushed off the balcony she looks dead as paparazzi take photos of her. Special effects have been used once again of newspaper images spiraling into the shot saying "Lady Gaga is Over" as if to say she is dead. The next part of the music video shows two different shots which are played together and switch between shots to the music. The first shot shows the artist being carried into a wheelchair suggesting that she is now disabled. The other shot shows Lady Gaga sitting on a couch with what i would say is provocative clothing which can link in with the theorist Laura Mulvey and her 'Male gaze theory' which shows men will be attracted to her also her "sexy" dance moves on the couch on this shot. Going back to the first shot we see 4 men surrounding Lady Gaga it seems that the more clothes they remove off her the more her body moves.

The next shows the image above of her own money on the money it says "The United States of Gaga". This shows how outrageous the artist is but this is why her fans love gaga. The next shot shows a fragmented cut zoom which goes with the beat of the music showing a pool of blood and a lady slouched over a chair suggesting she has been killed. This happens regularly throughout the rest of the video obviously linking to the story line. Another scene is then added in a long shot showing the artist and others dancing this is typical of the genre for Lady Gaga. The other scene where she is on the couch she seems to be getting very intimate with a male. The different, quirky costumes used in the shots show her personality which is why she is recognized by her fans. The end of the storyline shows her making a drink for her partner and she opens up her ring and pours a unknown powder into the drink and gives it to him. He drinks it and immediately his head drops suggesting he has died and we hear the sound of his glass fall which is shown in a close up. We can hear the phone ring and it says "911 whats your emergency?" she replied "I just killed my boyfriend". The song fades back in with the sound of the ambulance getting louder and louder.