Close up - Kanye West's head and shoulders close-up creates a powerful and threatening image which emphasises visuals to lyrics ( because the song is called power) also gives him a god-like figure.
The music video consists of one continuous shot in which the camera slowly zooms out of the frame, but still keeping Kanye the main focus for the audience this represents power. When the frame becomes a wide shot, as an audience we see all the characters this was done via a cutaway shot and a dolly zoom to highlight the other characters the main message of this video is power ( being Kanye) surrounded by decedance and sexuality and death of others, the wide shot challenges that position of power.
In this music video there has been no cuts and the characters do not have the same duration as the track ,phantom cameras were used to create super slow-motion the whole image itself is fantastic and symbalises a moving painting. Intertextual reference is made to 17th century art , the start of the broquet era where in these paintings you can see elements where the video has taken from, for example the naked bodies women and murder. As seen below in Ruben's massacre of the innocence.
The editing in this music video is incredible, filming each character and fitting in the 360 degree frame as you can see below all the shots that were taken for the music video.
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