Genre analysis

Destinys Child-Bugaboo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVd1Xv8HzI

I chose to analyse this video because I wanted to show why this song is appropriate for our band.

  To start off with the video shows close ups of the girls as they're walking around a corner. Their clothing is very revealing which automatically attracts the male audience as it shows theyre are veyr sexy women. The fact they are walking into the camera and walking gives the impression they are important and people are out of their way to walk.

  There are also birds eye view shots of the band singing which symbolises how they feel about this male they are singing about. The message is that this male is bugging them and you would expect them to feel belittled by it hence the camera angle.

 One of the band members also throws her phone into a nearby bin after getting a text from the guy. This refelects how she feels about the guy and no matter what he tries she will still have the power to have one over on him. It shows the audience the female dominance and she can't be controlled.

  The girls then change into yet another revealing and sexy outfit. So through out the video, it is not only attracting a female audience for their girl power and fun but also the male audience as they carry on to look appealing.

  As well as this, the narrative in the video is now showing the lengths they go to to get away from the 'bugaboo' .

Genre analysis

Spice Girls-Say you'll be there 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro0FW9Qt-4

  At the beginning of the video each member of the band is presented as a character. Here you can see Geri playing a part as Trixie. She is dressed in black leather which connotates her as being sexy and appealing to the male audience but she is also holding a gun which gives the impression she is in control and also in power.
Emma Bunton is also shown as sweet and innocent with her hair in bunches but then punches at the screen, this gives the same impression as Geri; a bit of girl power!

  Throughout the next part of the video the girls sing one by one but the rest of the band dancing behind them. This also symbolises girl power again because although singing alone, the girls are still backing them up as if united.

 

  The setting is them in a desert which connotates being stranded, nowhere to go, illusinations and misleading. This also reflects on the band too as although in sexy outfits and there is a glitter screen behind them to show their girly side, that is what seems to lure the male figure to them. However, as you can see, they tie him up on the floor, this shows they dominate him, which can then lead back to the black leather clothing.

  Going back to being stranded, the lyrics repeat, "I'm giving you everything" which the video shows relavance to as the girls drive around in a car seeing as the only way out. Also, they're bursting every glass of water there which is the only way he will survive, connotating he needs the female figures to survive not the other way round. Once again, girl power is shown throughout.

  The video ends with the band driving off into the sunset with the male strapped to the top of the car. It shows that the females will always have the dominance over the male, in a sexual way symbolising leading them on in their sexual leather outfits, but also as a unit of having power over him.