1) The document provides instructions for an advanced portfolio homework assignment involving analyzing a music video in 3 tasks. 2) Task 1 requires choosing a music video and providing title, artist, genre and style. Task 2 involves analyzing the video using elements from a provided framework, illustrating with screengrabs. Task 3 requires creating a blog and sharing the URL. 3) The response analyzes Sia's "Chandelier" music video, focusing on its representation of addiction through a strange young dancer in an abandoned apartment. Shots follow her dancing throughout single takes to depict her unstable state of mind and lack of control. Props like photos symbolize the video's and addict's experiences.

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Task 1: Choose 1 music video
State Title/Artist/Genre/Style
Use the followingboxesdetailingLacey’sRepertoire ofElements,to analyse the text:
Task 2: Now write upyouranalysis,usingscreengrabsfromthe videotoillustrate yourpoints.(800-
1200 words)
Task 3. Create your AdvancedPortfolioBloginbloggerandemail me yourURL. Call the blog Your
Name: AdvancedPortfolio
Genre elements Conventions
Characters –
representations,
stereotypes,
behaviour,body
language,specific
actors/stars
a younggirl witha shortblonde wigonand a nude colouredleotard. The
stereotype of ayounggirl usuallyisassociatedwiththe horrorgenre ora
verystrange character in a film
Narrative events–how
isthe narrative
orderedand
structured?
The whole narrative of the video is about addiction. It is showing the girl
dancing as if she has mental issues and from start to finish this doesn’t
change
Iconography – props,
symboliccodes
The photographs that are dotted about the abandoned apartment are a
representation of the video
Setting- mise enscene it is abandoned, strange, cluttered and disorganised.Everything in the
apartment is quite plane
Technical and audio
codes– camera use,
editing,lighting,
diegetic/nondiegetic
sound,sfx
Due to the continuity editing and mainly long shots it proves that the
addicts mind is a one way system and when they have the alcohol there
is no stopping.

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NinaCollins
Music video- SiaChandelier
In the music video ‘Chandelier’ there is only one character, a young
girl with a short blonde wig on and a nude coloured leotard. The
stereotype of a young girl usually is associated with the horror genre
or a very strange character in a film, this music video has the same
representation as she is acting very strange and gives the music video
an edge. The girl is clearly a dancer, shot in a
grungy, largely empty run-down apartment with
strange drawings. The girl is meant to be a young
Sia who is the singer of this song. As the song
and the lyrics about wanting to hang from the
chandelier and not being able to wait until the night, the young girl dances
throughout the apartment in a manic modern way that are both
extraordinary and disturbing. She stops to pretend to eat in a way that is
pantomime like, with a dead-eyed stare, and then continues her dance
movements throughout the apartment.
The whole narrative of the video is about addiction. It is showing the girl dancing as if she has
mental issues and from start to finish this doesn’t change. The end shot is the girl waving and
then she curtseys 3 times which is saying ‘enter the addiction if you dare’.
There is no start middle and end to this video as it is the same situation
throughout as she is on drugs or alcohol. Due to the girl being so young it
makes the video all the more controversial.
The photographs that are dotted about the abandoned apartment are a
representation of the video, there is
one image that is hand drawn by a
really young child and the others are
strange images of people, the
apartment itself is like the addict, it is
abandoned, strange, cluttered and
disorganised. Everything in the apartment is quite plane
which shows that the addict is quite small minded however
the strange images show the interesting thing in their lives
which is alcohol.
The video is filmed without edits; there are single shots that follow the girl into different rooms.
The dancing is remarkable but so is the sensation
the girl gives of just barely being in control as her
feelings begin to overwhelm her to where she is,
literally, at times crawling up the walls. It’s
haunting and eerie and compelling. Due to the
continuity editing and mainly long shots it proves

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that the addicts mind is a one way system and when they have the alcohol there is no stopping.
There is quite low key lighting which makes the video all the more eerie and strange. There is no
diegetic sound it is just the non-diegetic music. The character in the video doesn’t mime once,
this makes it very obvious that no diegetic sound was intended.
In conclusion the video is very strange and eerie. It is about an alcohol addict who is expressing
their feelings, this is shown through the props which is the apartment itself and the photos in the
apartment, also by the camera techniques, there is very little cuts and a lot of long shots. The
video has no diegetic sound which proves that the girl is nothing to do to with the singer or the
reasoning behind the video.