Emeli Sande
– Heaven – Hashim Shah – Media
In the music video to ‘Heaven’ by Emeli Sande, most of the
camera angles are directed at her. They hone in on her face and other faces of
people that she might encounter on a day to day basis. At various stages
through the music video, new people are introduced and are followed throughout
the video. As the video starts the people look quite sad and are possibly in
unprivileged circumstances. The camera angles are also directed towards their
faces, with the intention of showing their glum facial expressions.
Throughout the video whenever Emeli Sande appears in the
video, she is miming the words to her song whilst sometimes using hand
movements to express how she feels towards the song.
As the video progresses, their facial expressions begin to
lighten up, and the background’s become brighter. Previously, the backdrops to
the people were of dark streets / street lamps / beds in the street. As the
video progresses the, backdrops are of the sky during the day, and the cameras
are below the persons face, and the camera is pointing up to make it seem as if
the person is in power. The reason for the backdrop being the sky is that the
song theme throughout the song is ‘heaven’.
Towards the last quarter / third of the video, the people in
the video do begin to mime the words to the song that is playing in the
background. The song is at its pinnacle point, and all the musical instruments are
playing at the same time. This is in sync with the morale of the people and
their facial expressions.
There are not many special effects used as they are not
needed to explain the story. This highlights how simple, yet effective the
video is whilst portraying the story of the people in the video.
*insert screenshots from music video*
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