Nina Collins

Tori Kelly- Dear No One

The main character in this music video is the girl, she is in her mid twenties and has fallen in love with the other character in the music video who is non existant. She is the typical pop singer, rock chick clothes; the leather jacket and black top and shorts, however she also supports the ‘normal’ girl look. The black clothing shows that the lovbe she is singing about is not good, it never works out and that she is unhappy, those are the connatations of the colour black and the protagonist is

wearing all black. She has very subtle make up and quite messy hair, nothing in the video is over the top which makes us as the audience forget that she is even a celebrity, this is also potrayed due to the fact she is singing about not being able to find her ‘soul mate’, we automatically think that all celebrities have everything they want however this is not the case. Her body language is very open and she is very casual, this gives off her ‘normal girl’ persona. As she is following a man in this video, it

shows the audience that she is part of the pop culture as the majority of those songs include love and at one point she actually says ‘this is your love song’ which proves to us that the video is of the popular culture. Tori Kelly portrays herself as the typical teen in this music video, a lot of the video footage is of her sat in her bed with a jumper on and she is just singing in her bedroom like every other teenage girl does.

The music video begins with the main persona sat up against a wall singing and watching people walk by, she looks quite unhappy and she is looking down at her feet and has a very closed body language, she then see’s a man that catches her eye, she stands up and begins to walk after him through the building and then out

the door, along the way she sees couples who are loved up and are happy, she looks at them in envy and she still has closed body language and is wearing all black clothing, this tells us that she is still unhappy. While she is doing this the camera cuts back to her in her bedroom singing and also on a rooftop singing, she follows the man up a flight of stairs and ends up on the rooftop, the same one that she is singing on when the camera cuts back, this gives us the first indication that the man is not real and that she was there all along, when they both reach

Nina Collins

the rooftop she puts her hand on his shoulder, as she does this he slowly fades away to confirm that he doesnt exist.

Throughout the music video not many props are used, as she is walking down the street, the producers have tried to make it look as realistic as possible, they have used the general public to walk around in the background, in and out of shops and the couples who are hugging. Cars and bikes are also used to show that it is a road in a busy urban town. There is graffiti and general damage around the street for example of the rooftop there is white spray paint, this shows the normality of the town. The place that looks like her bedroom is a flat or apartment in the centre of the town centre, it

is nothing special and is again portraying her as this normal young girl who wants to find her soul mate. Shops are closed and have the shutters down, this along with the graffiti implies that it is quite a poor area and that it is not a posh town centre.

This ties in with the mise en scene of the place, it is a very built up place and looks a lot like Manchester city centre, however a lot of city centres look the same due to all of the shops and restauraunts around, especially with the graffiti and old shutters on shops, there are also bins that are over flowing with rubbish. At one point you can see the craines and the factories in the background when she is on the rooftop which confirms she is in a urban area. Around her bedroom she has posters of flowers and the typical things you would expect to be in a teenage girls room such as lots of pillows and statues.

In this music video the camera does a lot of tracking backwards, this is because it is following the main protagonist through the

city and she is just walking towards the camera. During the scenes in her bedroom there was many close ups on her face to show the emotion, the saddness in her face, during these shots the background was blurred so that the audience focous on her face and nothing else. When she first sees the man there is a mid shot with low key lighting so that the audience can see her and the man in the same picture so they can understand that he has caught her eye and that she is going to walk after him. There are many over the shoulder shots to show what is going on infront of her and it gives the audience an ideo of what the main protaganist can see and what she is doing, this is used at the end of the music video when she puts her hand on the mans shoulder and he fades away. There is a lot of cutting in this music video, it cuts back to

Nina Collins

her in her bedroom and on the rooftop and then back to her walking down the street at different points, this makes the video quite fast paced which reflects on what is happening in the video. The audio is quite fluent throughout and she is singing music from the pop genre.