CASE STUDY 3 - MILEY CYRUS - WRECKING BALL

video begins with a close up shot of Miley's face with her eyes tearing up as the music starts. i feel they used this close up shot so that miley's facial expressions can really create an emotional connection with the audience and makes the whole video start of pulling at the audience's heart strings as the whole emotion of the video is quite sad. Then with that close up shot miley starts to lip sync along to the song. it then cuts to shots of miley holding a hammer and dragging the hammer across the floor. as the chorus kicks in theres shots of her tracing this concrete wall with the hammer then a wide shot of her walking towards the camera as a literal wrecking ball comes in and breaks the concrete wall down ass shes dressed in all white. coming into the second verse of the song there is a shot of her sitting on the wrecking ball swinging around, i feel like this is to show that like the lyrics portray that she is the wrecking ball and by sitting on it, it shows they are the same thing. the next shot is then of her on the ball swinging naked, i feel like she used this to strip down to her fans and audience to show the real her there by really connecting to her audience. then coming into the second chorus it changes between shots of her singing and breaking down the wall with the hammer and licking the hammer which the cutting rate matches perfectly with the rate of the actual song. the video then continues with these different shots at a medium cutting rate in fitting with the tempo of the somg. when it comes to the bridge of the song it really slows down and a medium close up shot of miley lip syncing along to the song really brings across that real raw emotion of the song as she starts crying as she lip syncs. then going into the last chorus of the song there are lots of shots of the wrecking ball alone breaking through the concrete wall, i feel this wall is representative of mileys relationship breaking , this shot interchanges with shots of miley laying in the ruins of the wall. the final shot of the video i feel is very effective as its of the wrecking ball coming towards the camera as it blacks out which i feel was a really creative way of putting the video to an end.