Monday, 1 July 2013
Brtiney Spears-Hit me baby one more time Narrative
The video for Britney Spears- Hit me baby one more time uses a circular narrative to put across the feeling of her apparent dull and repetitive life style. However, it uses a dream sequence and fast motion takes of her to show and portray to the audience her inner ambitions and to show her breaking the normal conventions although she is stuck in a repettitive lifestyle. The opening of the video makes it apparent of her impatience and lack of interest at her day to day life, with the shot of her tapping foot, to her tapping a pencil, and then to her sighing, to a cut to a close up of a ticking clock. All of these signs make it clear to the audience of her impatience for the day to end, and the audience are intregued as to what she is waiting for. The scene then changes to one of dull emptyness, to one of chaos, with excited students who are free to begin their day. At the end of the video, the sound of the bell is once again present, making the audience realise the circular narrative, which is then followed by the same shot of her in class to show that she hasn't yet broken free from her entrapped life.
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Yes I think you right about the circular narrative but I not sure that the overall intention of the video was to portray a dull, trapped lifestyle. Isn't this the teenage fantasy - as she raunchily dances down the corridor flouting uniform regs and singing "Hit me baby"?
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