Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own

I've chosen to analyse Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own because, obviously it's the same artist we are using for our final video, but also because there are several elements in the video we are going to use in ours.



I've used tubechop to cut this section of the video because i feel it's the most significant part. I really like the way it's so simple the way Amy Winehouse walks down the street but the mise-en-scene stands out. And it's the same in the hotel room, she's just sitting on the edge of a bed singing but we can just see bottles of whiskey and some smoke probably from a cigerette.

Because of the place this video set, Soho, the treatment of females is quite one-sded and apart from Amy we only see three other women leaning against the wall when Amy walks down the street, two are prostitutes and one is wearing very provocotive clothing.



This camera angle as she walks down the street has a intertextual reference to The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony's video. In the way she is just walking down the street completely oblivious to everything thats happening around her. As the video progresses the people around her become more hectic and outragous, this represents what it's like in Soho. The camera doesn't once go away from her body or face, it just changes from the street back to the hotel room. This video has disjuncture because what Amy Winehouse is singing about has nothing to do with what's happening in the video.