Katy Perry The One That Got Away

By Liza Ievtukhova

The video is conceptual, it affects the audience emotionally. The name of the song in itself contains the overall meaning, it is about love and loss. Video is directly connected with the lyrics. And on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos

However, there is also another storyline that represents us main character in her elderly life, which is created by the director to make an emotional impact on the audience, as we feel sorry for her. There are a lot CU and ECU to emphasis her feelings. There are few bits with her performance, the narrative is much stronger.

The mise-en-scene is the part of the context, and the key to establish main characters life and relationships. It starts with her elderly life, there are diegetic sounds of her talking with man, as well as it finishes with no song on the background, but diegetic sounds of the car crash, her coming to his place of death etc. Was made by the director for the audience to make the story more realistic, so that the audience doesnt have a feeling its just another music video.