Lorde - Royals - Music Video Analysis
o Tracking
backwards down street with music playing
o Title
slide introducing song
o CU
Singer not singing while song playing in background
o Jump
cuts to unmade bed on the clicks – 4th shot in
o Cuts
back to singer –singing this time
o Jump
cuts to top of plant and white wall – back to singer singing again
o Jump
cuts to tv room and back to singer
o Cut
to man in bed facing away from camera
o ASL
speeds up to chorus
o Man
leaning over bath with water dripping down his face – low key lighting
o Tv
on static then back to ECU of singer
o Change
of location about 18 shots in to a LS of man in gym hall
o Man
swimming in rain
o MCU
of singer again
o High
angle telephone wires
o Man
in the living room with boxing gloves on then back to ECU of singer
o High
shot of 2 men boxing in living room
o Cuts
back to singer then back to boxers then back to singer for a long ASL for
instrumental
o Once
singing starts again cut to a man in the bathroom then laid on a sofa
o Cut
back to CU of singer
o 2
different shots of 2 men shaving each others heads in the bathroom
o Quick
cut to singer not singing then cut to MS of singer singing again
o Cut
to ECU of adams apple on a man
o High
angle shot of man underwater
o Cut
to singer singing again
o Back
to boxing in the living room – LS
o LS
of static tv and one of the boxers sat next
o High
angle of empty pool then back to singer
o CU
of one of the boxers
o High
angle of telephone wires
o Cut
to singer not singing
o One
of the boxers smiling into mirror with blood on his face and mirror
o Long
shot of apartment complex
o CU
of singer very long ASL
o CU of boxer laid next to train track – pull focus
o Back
to CU of singer
o Then
pull focus of boxer at a bus stop with 3 other men
o Different
angles of the group
o CU
of men on bus – pull focus on each
o Cut
back to singer
o Tracking
forwards down the road then finish on the singer not singing
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