Taylor Swift's Bad Blood Music Video Analysis
Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood pop music video uses sound, camerawork, editing and mise en scene effectively to reflect the lyrics of this popular song. Sound At the exposition, sound is used effectively to build up a dramatic scene. The music video uses a contrast between silence when the audience first sees the office and the city around it and non diegetic background music which is loud, fast and dramatic when the fighting begins between Taylor, Selena and the antagonists. Having these differing sounds straight after the other emphasises the dramatic change and could make the audience jump as it seems unexpected. It also helps to represent the changing relationship between the characters Taylor and Selena play, as it turns from a casual calm friendship to an angry, violent rivalry. As this particular scene progresses and Selena turns on Taylor, she kicks her out of the window and pleonastic sound is used when the glass smashes as it makes it dramatically louder. This adds to the ...