Selena Gomez- Who says Micro Elements

I have found a song by Selena Gomez and it is called 'Who says'. There are many elements to her music video that particularly work which I would like to possibly add into our final piece if we are able to. 

The first element in the video is the mis en scene. I like how she wears a black dress, so not conforming to the stereotypical 'girly' theme of colours. This supports the theorist Levi- Strauss as he says that there are BINARY OPPOSITIONS. The binary opposition in this case is being Perfect and not being perfect. This particularly fits with the song as it is about how she doesn't care about being 'perfect' and she is just herself. 

Another element that i liked was the use of the split screen. It is very effective as it may either help to understand the narrative of the song and to tell a story, or even use it as a contrast of scenes or show different people. In this print screen that i took, it gives a clearer picture of the surroundings. 


The last element that i found extremely effective was the use of the images whilst Selena sung them. For example when she sung  'nanananana' The split screen has a shot of her in one and a shop called 'nana'. There are other words in that shot of the shop as she mentions 'a diamond in the ruck' it has relevance to the shop as it is a jewellery shop. And this is also used again just after when she sings 'you've got every right' it cuts to a shot of two sign posts- one pointing left saying 'every' and one pointing right saying 'right' which is portraying the lyrics through images.



Here is the tutorial i have found about how to make a basic split screen so as long as i follow the instructions it should be a fairly simple process.