Music Video Research - Lil Wayne - How To Love

Lil Wayne - How To Love

At the start of the music video there is an interlude which sets the scene for the narrative of the song. This is a good idea for this music video as it very much focuses around the story and so this is needed to help the viewer understand what is going on.

I love the use of focus pull in this shot to highlight the male in the background looking at the female caracter, which is part of the narrative of the song and also goes along with the lyrics of the song.

Here we see the typical shot of the artist (Lil Wayne), we expect to see shots of the artist sinnging in music video and the location choice used in this shot is what is expected from the type of music that thos artist produces as it has a grimy feel bein shot in this underground location. However this is one of his more emotional songs and so the acoustic guitar gives a nice contrast to what we would usally expect to see in one of his music videos.

I like the use of colour correction in this shot which helps make this clip more like the inside of a strip club as the colours try to give the impression of lighting in the club. Colour correction is used very well in this music video as it helps to set the mood for the clip throught the video. It also makes the musi video look very proffecinal.

I love this camera angle and i think it gives a very powerfull ending to the music video as Lil Wayne walks of down the underpast through steam.