Mariah Carey - We Belong Together video analysis

1. Mariah Carey – We Belong
Together
R&B

2. 1: Quick couple of sentences
introduction explaining
Within this PowerPoint I will be analysing a music video
from the R&B genre. The video I have decided to
analyse is Mariah Carey – We Belong Together

3. The genre of the video
The genre of the video is R&B
In the first shot you are introduced
to the a big house which looks like
this located in a nice well kept area,
this tells me this is an R&B video as
this is typical convention used in
R&B videos. As they are trying to
portray a lavish lifestyle will fancy
houses and cars over to the
audience.
In this shot you just see the feet of the artist
so you don’t actually know who it is, the shot
the goes into the artist laying on a bed naked
with just a a sheet over her. These elements
are very typical in the R&B genre having very
little mise en scene, in this video the mise en
scene only includes a white curtain, an R&B
videos usually have simple scenes wish simple
back grounds and colour. This is done to draw
more attention to the artist and the emotion
of that certain part of the song.

4. setting and décor
What does it connote to the audience?
• Why do you think the director has chosen it?
• Does it fit the genre of the music video?
•
The décor of this shot of the video is very grand and
extravagant showing the audience the finer
lifestyle…

5. Costume
• The artist; Mariah is just wearing a simple white dress in some scenes and
a white sheet wrapped over her body in other. these two costumes have a
certain sex appeal about them this is done to attract a male audience as
the some itself is pretty feminine therefore the producer has decided to
put the artist on two somewhat sexy outfits to try and broaden the
audience.

6. Costume
• - in other scenes Mariah is wearing a very extravagant wedding dress as this fits in with the
lyrics of the song helping to annotate them and bring them to life. the extravagance is also a
way of showing the audience the wealthy lifestyle famous people live, also it gives the video
something extra as if the artist was just wearing a simple wedding dress and everyday
working class member of the audience would wear the audience may not be drawn the video
as much as it would cased as normal to them as it would be something they could have
instead of something they wish they could have.
• These outfits fit the R&B genre well, R&B video typically have a simple costume with simple
colours like black or white, for this video white keeping your eyes on the artist with her just
wearing a white dress something any woman could wear. Then going to the extremes and
have an extravagant costume that the average person would never wear.

7. Props
• The props in this video are used the to fit the narrative of the video, as the
narrative involves a wedding some of the props used are; the ring pillow, flower
bouquet. These are used to set a sense of realism within the video as these are
things you would find at a typical wedding.

8. Prop
• A typical R&B prop is a fancy expensive car, and this video
complies to this there is a fancy car in the end of the video.
again this is a chance to entice the viewer with something
'flashy' they wish they had.

9. Body language and movement
• Within this video the artist; Mariah expresses herself a lot
though her body language. She uses the use of her hand and
body to express how she's feeling and to add extra emphasis
to the video and performance.

10. Performance
• Within any R&B video including this one the artist plays a very
important role and adds a lot to the video. With the artist being in
the video it helps the video to sell for example if the artist wasn't
used in there video and another actor was used the audience may
not want to watch the video therefore they may not end up liking
the song and not download it so this would be the artist, record
company and others involved would end up loosing money. This is
the same if the artist plant a poor performance within there music
video.

11. Narrative
• Within the video for Mariah Carey's - We Belong Together the narrative
follows on from a previous video, within this video Mariah is getting
married to her partner the man she thought she loved when a possible ex
lover turns up at her party (previous video) then again at her wedding &
she realise that he is her true love, she decides to leave her fiancé at the
alter and run off with her ex lover.
• Mariah plays the pain role within the narrative playing the one caught up
in the love story.
• The lyrics fit very well with the narrative, With Mariah singing 'i didn't
mean it when I said I didn't love you so I should of held on tight I never
should of let you go' fitting with the narrative of her leaving her ex when
she should of stayed with his as he is the on she loved. The chorus then
leads into 'When you left i lost a part of me…come back baby please cause
we belong together', this is Mariah asking for her ex lover to come back
cause they in fact belong together.
• The narrative of this video helps create a story of love.