Thomas Grace
AICE Media Studies
4/21/22
At the very beginning of the scene a visual effect is used to represent some sort of flashback or fast forward. The light in the reflection of the mirror transforms into the light at the concert as we see the makeup-less singer transform into her public personality in order to perform. This is the first representation of a facade being put on we see. In Nashville we see a lot of close up shots focusing on the character we should be looking at. This helps the viewer stay focused even as the distracting lights and visuals of the concert are in the background. Visually we can tell who the main character is during the concert scene because of the spotlight shining onto the character. The other band members aren’t shined on as much as the main singer. This could be done to further emphasize that this is a character who we should be focusing on and the ones behind her aren’t important or reoccuring. As the concert ends the camera is briefly covered by red drapes, physically this means the end of the concert, but also could symbolically mean the change into the character’s regular actions. Concerts are a performance and the performers are putting on a show and usually don’t act the same as they would during the concert. After the concert a younger character comes up to one of the singers. The actor uses certain behaviors to showcase that this character is the daughter of the singer. We see her use “giddy actions” such as bouncing up and down slightly. Despite appearing and possibly being an adult her child-like behavior continues to show through her speech patterns and bouncy behavior.
When the camera cuts to the lady in her dressing room we immediately get a brief foreshadow of her personality. The camera cuts to stacks of books with her own face on it. Later on we learn she is very full of herself and has a big ego. The books foreshadow her personality before she is even seen on screen as she is the type of person to own stacks of books with her own face on it. It’s an act of self appraisal or self validation. This personality is later confirmed when we see her brashly grab the perfume off the desk showing her lack of care for things that don’t affect her personally. At 2:45 in the video when the egotistical lady is talking to the assistant the camera angles are used to help show how she is imposing on the assistant. The camera angle is close up to the assistant’s face with the lady in the foreground in focus. She slowly gets closer while not breaking eye contact. When she leaves the dressing room she puts on a character similar to the red drapes seen earlier. She becomes upbeat and puts a smile on her face when we just saw she isn’t feeling those things in reality. The dressing room physically and mentally represents being behind-the-scenes, physically for being there before a concert, and mentally for showing her true character and personality where she wouldn’t be called out, behind-the-scenes. She had to prepare herself to be seen in public physically via makeup and preparing her hair and mentally via masking her personality.
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