I Choose Chains

I have chosen these chains
I have been freed
But yet again
Manacles
Close
In

How do I escape
The cell is unlocked
But it is safe
I love to hide
Shrouding in darkness

My true self
My true love
Seizes me up
I choke
Unable

Permanent flashing
Vulnerability
Cowardice
It consumes me
Tears abuse me
My heart wants to

Explode
And yet
I stay silent
The same
I always choose the chains

Music Video Analysis: Taemin - Danger

Set Ups:

• Car park
• Warehouse
• White background
• Dark Grey shiny room
• Speaker walls
• White room
• Grey wall
• Cable chair
• Light behind head

Progression throughout:

1. Outfits change
2. Dance
3. Different settings introduced
4. Hair colour changes
5. Black and white shots
6. Number of dancers
7. Motorbike
8. Guitar, swinging microphones

Use of colour:

• Blue lighting in underground scenes, shadowy, low key
• High key lighting in shiny rooms
• Taemin’s costume distinguished from back dancers
• Platinum blonde and black hair
• Red suits
• Leopard print

Editing:

• Begins with shaky cam shots before music starts
• Cuts between dance moves in different set ups
• Strut in time to beats
• Juxtaposition in framing
• Camera click fx
• Cut with taemin’s kick

Dil To Pagal Hai

Techniques Used

• Begins in clear studio setting with bright light behind setting this bit up as something different from reality - introducing us to the characters and their utterly opposite beliefs
• Cuts out to reveal them sitting on yellow benches - benches then occupied by loving couples for the duration of the title sequence
• Colour shifts completely from yellow to blue
• Jump Cuts in MS during musical number to show frustration between male and female dancer
• Cuts from her to him both doing a similar dance move though in different places
• A shot in which there are two versions of the couple showing the different sides of their relationship; lovers and friends
• Pooja's flash back is illustrated by her turning and an OTS revealing why she must be dutiful to her aunt