Real Media Texts 3 (Music Videos) - Magic! Rude

Song	The Narrative	Settings	Number Of Shots	Transitions Used	Representations Seen
Magic!- Rude	There is a man who is in love with a girl and is trying to win her dad over. He is trying to persuade her father to let him marry her. However, her father wants her to marry another guy.	Starts at a house, this then progresses to them being outside the house, in a car. This house appears to be his and then he and his friends travel to see the girl’s father. Also there are shots of him performing in his garage, in the girl’s father’s house and of the girl. We then see a scene where the girl and her family are sitting eating dinner with the man sitting next to the daughter who the father wants her to marry. This is the continuous theme throughout, the father wants one thing and the daughter another until the end where we see the two get married, as the daughter ‘rebels’ against her father. At this point we see the father shut the door on his daughter and then she is seen walking off dancing with her man.	Lots- There are lots of shots used. Close ups, for example of the ring. Also long shots of the car outside the house. Other various shots were used, for example Mid Shots, high angle, low angle and a clever fish-eye type shot through the door. All these shots add to the music video and make it more interesting to watch.	Cuts- From one shot to another, very normal to find this sort of shot in a music video.   Shot Reverse Shots- These were used to show the father and man talking when he was asking if he could marry her. This made it look like a cut from one scene to another.   Fade to Black- A common trend at the end of music videos for it to fade out.	The dominant character throughout is the father figure. He doesn’t allow the other man to marry his daughter which is the main narrative throughout the music video. He also appears to be very dominant of his daughter and he expects a lot from her, and even choses who he wants her to marry. The father seems to be upper class, in comparison to the man begging for his word who seems to be a stereotypical lower class man.