Detailed Textual Analysis of 3 Music Videos

Ajda Pekkan - Yakar Geçerim


Genre: The genre of this music video is Turkish pop, electro music. 
Film language:

  This is a long shot of the singer in a coloured version of the music video,this particular long shot has many meaning for example you can clearly see through her legs which is very sexual and also to show femininity. Also the man at the background symbolises that the singer Ajda is more powerful than him and she is stronger because she is facing up while the man face is down.


Medium shot: 

 



This particular medium shot shows Ajda in a white elegant dress leaning on to what it looks like a burned rusty staircase and the sun shining at the background, this symbolises that Ajda is pure and that she is the sun shine that will get through her pain and over come her sorrow. 


close up shot: 

 


This close up shot you can clearly see Ajda in full detail and everything at the back including the man is blurred, this is towards the end of the music video.This symbolises that she is the main start of this video and everything at the back is not as important as her.

This is shot above of the main star sitting on the bonnet of the car and the camera  is a rotating shot which is symbolising that even tho she is a women she enjoys cars which is stereotypically a male interest. 
Genre characteristics: The genre of this particular music video is a Turkish pop music by Ajda Pekkan. So people will expect the singer to sing in the Turkish language because her audience is mainly Turkish, also people will expect her to wear revealing and elegant clothes and dresses because that sums her personality and her character.

Mise -en-scene: The main colours that were featured in this music video was grey and black to symbolises the burnet colour and the sadness, the music video was set in a dry rocky place to add the effect of isolation from the outside world. Costumes in this music video was a black holed cardigan with a black skimpy dress and black boots, and a white and golden dress. There was only one main prop which was a car and a burned rusty staircase. The lyrics of course was not in English but was in Turkish so people who don't understand will be difficult to understand the music video. The song is called  "yakar geçerim" which means in english "I burned through" by knowing what the song is called you can then instantly know that the lyrics, the music and the visuals all com together and make sense. 

Representation of the artist: In the music video the artist is represented as a powerful and sexual at the begging because of her revealing cloths and how she is always at the front and the man at the back, later on in the video she then becomes elegant with her pure white gold and white dress.

references to voyeurirsm: I believe that the artist wanted to grab the attention of both male and female audiences because in the past the public said that she needs to act her age but she wants to show the people that even though she is old she still has a perfect body.