Starts with crowd dancing in slow motion footage, wearing dark colours. Some men with slicked back white hair. Metallic looking clothing.
White smoke screen pyrotechnic, bright lighting. Singer walks through in a cat suit, close up on her boots.
Shot of her from behind walking through parting the crowd. Dominance, feminist ideology?
She starts to sing, performance video, perhaps also concept?
She's walking along a cat walk that is self raising, crowds dancing to the beat of the music. Red flashing lights.
Intercuts from her wearing the black cat suit to a red one. Then duplicate shot of her in both, like mirror image but conflicting outfits.
Perhaps intertexual link to something like Gladiators or Power Rangers ?
Form of animation, choreographed dancing.
Intercuts to a binary oppostion, no longer black background but white. Singer has her hair down in a dress, with a male DJ in the background.
Split screen footage into three of singer and then DJ.
Then cuts to slow motion shots of the crowd dancing, diverse range of people and fashion sense.
Shot at the end where she hits the camera lenses, breaking the fourth wall, like a glass screen which shatters, she jumps through and her outfit changes as she does, music fades out and shot.
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
Starts black and white footage, strumming a guitar. Flashback?
Garden shed, male band playing, drinking beer.
Narrative/performance, nice linking shot, throws a can away then turns to a shot of wedding car driving off with cans attached to the back.
Shed collapses then fades into Bryan Adams laying on a hammock singing about the narrative, goes into colour. Like he is talking to a journalist as he makes notes.
Then cuts back to flashback of 1950's dirve in movie setting. Couple running around, teenage romance.
Fades back to colour, shaky camera work following singer walking towards the camera, breaking the fourth wall.
Flashback of the band running around wrecking havoc, running around factory throwing apples. police chase them.
As he walks fades from B/W to colour, walking around singing, someone out of frame throws him a guitar, walks to the garden shed again to play.
Added bit at the end, like a mini film, linking with the narrative story of the song.
Narrative footage adds anchorage to the story of the song and that the lyrics are not metaphorical but more narrational.
Fades back to colour, shaky camera work following singer walking towards the camera, breaking the fourth wall.
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