The document analyzes various shots in music videos to identify sexual and symbolic connotations. Extreme close-ups are used to highlight mystery, power, and ominous expressions. Wide shots depict dominance and submission through positioning of subjects. Symbolic objects like apples and snakes represent temptation and sin. Facial expressions and positioning of bodies and limbs imply sexual pleasure, passivity, and dominance. A variety of shots create themes of being trapped and misplaced.

1. Case Study The White Stripes – Blue Orchid Tilted camera angles heightened mystery and is very unconventional in a music video. Female presences looks almost haunting. Extreme Close Up - Mirrored apple Birds eye view – voyeuristic. Interesting colour contrast. Extreme Close Up – on eye seems ominous. Fiery hair = power

2. Close ups & Establishing Shots Wide Shot – Male subject looks demented and his stance suggests sexual dominance. (strong positioning of legs) Long Shot – Woman lying freely on the floor surrounded by snakes. Symbolic of temptation and sin. Mid shot – revealing flesh suggesting willing sexual passivity Mid shot – facial expression suggest pleasure. Apple symbolic of sin, heightened by blood reducing from apple.

3. Sexual Connotations Close Up – angle positioned In order to represent passivity and maximum flesh is shown suggesting sexual connotations. Wide shot – framed well, women positioned underneath horse represents phallic and sexual submission Close up - bare legged exposes skins in a sexual way. Mid shot – Facial expression = sexual pleasure

4. Gwen Stefani - What you waiting for Mid shot - Orgasmic facial expression Wide shot – glamorously dressed. Colours heighten the ideology of surrealism and fantasy Wide shot – Two identities positioned differently. One on the floor = weak. One higher up + powerful and regal.

5. A variety of shot which express a character hunting and lusting after something. The notion of being in a maze increases the ideologies behind a trapped person and a misplaced.