Video Analysis: Cut It Short
The video I am presenting is called "Cut it Short." The video depicts a beautiful young Indian woman with long hair getting her hair done. Not too many women in India would get their hair cut short because long hair signifies beauty. The woman in the video will keep repeating to her hairdresser to "cut it short" and the reason behind it will shock you.
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The director uses four techniques in the video. The first two techniques are cinematography and editing.
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Cinematography means to use the camera to shoot at different angles or to zoom in and out. Editing is to put clips together by cutting back and forth. Whenever the young woman says to "cut it short" the director shoots a close up of her face and then her hair. …show more content…
Acting skills in here are shown through the young lady's expression. That clip just now had the young woman keep a stern face. Her expression is stern because she is very serious and committed to cutting it short. [0.57 - 1.30]
Near the end you get an expression of sadness from the young woman when you see tears running down her face. In addition, you see expressions of disbelief from the other customers in the salon. Everyone's expression feeds into the moment and makes the content convincing to the audience.
As for the music, it starts off sort of lively during the beginning of the video which includes talkative women, but then suddenly everything stops as the young woman grabs the side of her hair and says a shocking statement. However, you may not have noticed that all sounds have stopped because you may have been so in tuned with this scene.
The hairdresser assumes that the reason she wants her hair short is because she has no time to do her hair. However the music turns dramatic when there were sounds of "ooo ooo" playing in the background. The young woman even says to "make it even shorter, so that no one can hold it like this again." The reason the young woman is telling her hairdresser that she wants it short is because she had been assaulted and has been grabbed by the hair. The music and this statement bring out the emotional feelings towards the
[Show whole video]
The director uses four techniques in the video. The first two techniques are cinematography and editing.
[0.10 - 0.57]
Cinematography means to use the camera to shoot at different angles or to zoom in and out. Editing is to put clips together by cutting back and forth. Whenever the young woman says to "cut it short" the director shoots a close up of her face and then her hair. …show more content…
Acting skills in here are shown through the young lady's expression. That clip just now had the young woman keep a stern face. Her expression is stern because she is very serious and committed to cutting it short. [0.57 - 1.30]
Near the end you get an expression of sadness from the young woman when you see tears running down her face. In addition, you see expressions of disbelief from the other customers in the salon. Everyone's expression feeds into the moment and makes the content convincing to the audience.
As for the music, it starts off sort of lively during the beginning of the video which includes talkative women, but then suddenly everything stops as the young woman grabs the side of her hair and says a shocking statement. However, you may not have noticed that all sounds have stopped because you may have been so in tuned with this scene.
The hairdresser assumes that the reason she wants her hair short is because she has no time to do her hair. However the music turns dramatic when there were sounds of "ooo ooo" playing in the background. The young woman even says to "make it even shorter, so that no one can hold it like this again." The reason the young woman is telling her hairdresser that she wants it short is because she had been assaulted and has been grabbed by the hair. The music and this statement bring out the emotional feelings towards the