1. 9 Frame Analysis
Katy Perry – Wide Awake
By Robyn Painter

3. I chose both these close-up shot to symbolizes the difference between Katy
Perry in this video. In the video Katy portrays to worlds, in the first one she is
very colorful and typical Katy wearing pink and has a wig on, but as she looks
into the mirror. The camera pans across and reveals the darker side to Katy,
she now is more angry with her blue hair and paler completion. To me this
shows two different worlds that Katy wants to show us through this video,
she has the real world were she is a a mega star but in her eyes when she
looks into the mirror she sees a world that she thinks she has, the darker side
to her being a mega star and all the set backs she has. The change in her facial
expression also shows this different persona that she portrays in the ‘mirror’
world, in the ‘real’ would she looks more worried and scared, but in the
‘mirror’ world we see that she is more angry and seems to be less venerable
than she does in the other photo. The contrast between the pink and the
purple also shows the 2 different people. Pink is more of a bright and calming
color, were as the purple is more dark and portrays her feelings on the inside.

5. This is an establishing shot of the world that Katy sees when she looks into
the mirror, it is a dark world with weeds growing but still there is a little
shining light upon the top showing that there is still hope in this evil world.
We see the world as being a dark and dull place to live, this is the world that
Katy sees when she thinks she lives in when she looks in the mirror. There is
also a maze type feel to this world that we can see that we are at the start of
the maze and if we want to get to the light at the end we have to go through
the maze to get there, I think that this is a symbol that the light is ‘fame’ and
that the maze shows the struggle and journey that you have to go on to get to
wear you want to go. Katy had to go to through the maze to get to wear she is
now in her life, we can see that she is trying to show that the journey is hard
and isn't a very nice one, due to the fact its dark and they are weeds growing
out of the walls etc. but that little bit of light at the top of a hill shows that
they is always a good outcome to your journey, and that bit of light shows
that the journey will be worth it.

7. In this part of the video we see Katy stood in a very narrow part of the maze,
we see all the weeds and its still very dark, she is dressed almost like a witch,
wearing a cape and still dressed in the dark clothing, the walls of the maze
start to close in on Katy but she doesn’t seam phased by this, still have that
hard look on her face a small ball of light starts to appear at the bottom of her
and goes up into her heart and push's up through her hands to push the walls
out and stop them from closing in on her. This could symbolize the pressures
that the ‘music industry’ puts on people and that in this world Katy would
push them away and break out of that life.

9. This is a imagine of another character that we see in the music video, to me
this is the younger version of Katy Perry who start off in this world, this world
is more like a dream world and Katy was dreaming of being a famous singer
since she was younger so this is the girl who started this dream/world off.
Another reason why I thought that this would be a younger version of Katy,
was the fact that the first time we see her is in the same way that we seen
the darker Katy in the video, it’s a close-up of her face with her eye brows
together in more of angry way, but she is also still young and innocent with
her wearing pink, just like Katy in the real world does. She has also been
affected by this dream world as she seams more angry at this moment in time
just lie the older darker Katy does.

11. This looks like the pair are connecting, and to me looks like a mirror imagine
of the young Katy who would dream about a life were she would be a famous
singer and very successful and happy but this is the Katy that has come out of
this dream world but them two connecting has opened up a new brighter
part of the world. The older Katy has recaptures her youth so to speak and
gone back to the world she first though of when she was a child. The weeds
are disappearing and there is a bright light shinning through but what also
looks like little bits of dust coming though, this could show that they hasn’t
been light in this world for a while and the reconnection of these two
characters has added light into the world. We once again have a connection
to a mirror.

13. This again is another link to the mirror world but only in this image Katy is
breaking that mirror with the help of her younger self, and her showing Katy
the world that she dreamed of isn't what she has created for her self so she is
now fighting back and is breaking down that wall between her life's and
making the life that she wants, this is the bad side to fame is now gone
because she is back in control of her world. She has lost the dark outfit and is
wearing more of a pale color with butterfly's on her dress, this is another link
to her wanting to be free, the smashed glass turns into butterfly's and links
into the fact that butterfly's can fly away but Katy can’t so she wants to be a
butterfly. She can only break the glass with the help of her younger self
showing that she needed support from who she used to be to turn into who
she wants to be, with the help she could fight back against the evil
photographer and stand up for herself.

15. In the image we see that the fighting back took its tool on Katy and ended up
getting ill, could possibly of have to seek mental help as it looks like she is in a
mental institute but is still being helped by her younger self, her body seams
life less and has almost give up on trying to fight everything, she has a
strawberry in her hand with adds a bit of color to the shot, this could stand
for her still having a bit of hope to get better. To get out of the funk that Katy
has seamed to get her self into, her younger self stands up to the guards and
breaks the floor so that she can break Katy free and get her out of this place
were she doesn’t really need to be, young Katy was saving her self from being
trapped before she got in to deep.

17. After all the troubles that they went through in the maze the girls have come
out at the bright end, younger Katy has guide her older self to this world that
is better for her and made her safe and out of the maze at the better end. We
still see the bad side to the maze in the background but we see the girls are
out of the worst part of it and don’t/should look back they should now focus
on the good. We also see the butterfly's coming in with Katy, showing that
she is finally free like the butterfly's.

19. Even in the ‘good’ world we still have things that can trick, in this shot we see
the man is lying to Katy, he looks like the prince charming who has come to
take her away and they will live happily ever after but really he is just the
same as every other man and will break her heart, but thanks to the younger
Katy she realizes and gets rid of him before he can break his heart. Katy has
come out of this a stronger person and now defends herself without the help
of her younger self. This shows that even in the good world there is still bad
things but you don’t always have to go down that path you can save your self
before you get in to deep and cant get out.

21. This is now proof that this is the younger version of herself, and now she can
go on and be herself and play on her bike like normal children should, she can
be a child before having to go through the maze herself.