Thursday, 19 April 2012

This music video is called Nothing On You by B.O.B ft Bruno Mars. The song uses many programs that emphasize the characters in the video. My first thoughts of the story behind the video is that B.O.B was telling the girls that they are pretty and that no matter what people tell them, they are the best in the world. I thought that the meaning of "Nothing On You"  was that the society had nothing on the girls to say they were ugly. It was evident that photoshop and other media programs were used in this video. The image presented was that the characters and the background were made of paper and magazines. The white boarder surrounding the actors in the video were used to emphasize them and telling them apart from the background. They also used this paper effect because it could represent a magazine, a source of media where models and other beautiful women can be found. By using this magazine effect, it supports the fact that they are pretty . I also found that the overlap of faces interesting. It could mean many things, but I think that the the musicians wanted to say that no matter what they look like, they are beautiful. Over all, the theme of this music video is telling women that they are pretty no matter what other people say. It is possible that there were many personal problems with B.O.B relationships that inspired him to sing this song. They might have also wanted to use the magazine idea to promote their idea. There is also the possibility that like most other songs, are written about love. The performance that stands out the most in this video is again the paper like effects. Stop motion animations is also added and together, it seems like drawings put together to make a stop motion video. This effect in my opinion made it confusing at first because it was hard to understand the point of it, but after looking deeper into the lyrics and pictures, it made much more sense. Finally, this music video has changed my perspective of the song when I first listened to it. It added more of a beat to the song and made things more clear lyric wise.

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