1. B Y L A U R A T H O R N B O R R O W
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEO:
LADY GAGA – TELEPHONE FT.
BEYONCÉ

2. MUSICAL GENRE
• Dance genre helps to gather an
understand of the types of
conventions which are needed to
create the type of effect in which the
people watching are expecting.

3. VOYEURISM
• Shoe represent femanitiy

4. VOYEURISM CONTINUED
• Close-up shots of the female body

5. VOYEURISM CONTINUED
• CCTV – the people are being watched 24/7

6. STAR PERSONA
• Unique and bizarre costumes

7. INTERTEXTUALITY
• Coco Cola Cans
• Virgin Mobile

8. VISUALS & LYRICS
• Telephone

9. PACE OF EDITING & MUSIC
• The pace of the editing
has coincided with the pace of the
music video to help create the effect
of us the view actually physically been
their. This is helped by many frequent
cuts, cut on the beat