Brief Textual Analysis of a Music Video

1. Name of Artist
Taylor Swift.
2. Title of Song
Love Story.
3. Date of release
September 12, 2008.
4.Director of video
Trey Fanjoy.
5.What genre of music does this song fall into?
Country Pop Music.
6.Is there a relationship between lyrics and visuals in the song?
There is a relationship between lyrics and viuals in the song, which runs the whole way through. She sings; "I got tired of waiting" and when she says this there is a visual of Taylor Swift standing on a balcony waiting. Another example is when she sings "We were both young, when I first saw you" and there is a visual of her meeting a boy, both in the start and the end of the video. The visiuals illustrate the lyrics.
7.Is there a relationship between the music and the visuals?
There is also a relationship between the music and the visuals. An example of this is where she runs to the man, and the music speeds up when the visuals do.
8.What is the importance of the artist in the visuals?
The artist is important in the visuals as she helps tell the narrative, and also lip syncs in the narrative.
9.Is there any voyeurism in the video?
During the video, there is no aspects of voyeurism.
10. Does the video have any intertexuality?
There is intertexuality within this video, as the lyrics are influenced by Romeo and Juilet ("Romeo save me"), and the visuals also illustrate this.
11.What is the mixture in the video in the video between performance and the narrtive?
The majority of the video is taken up by narrative, but there also some occassional performace of Taylor Swift singing, roughly 75% narrative and 25% performance.