analysing music video

Leona Lewis ‘bleeding in love

• This video is about people going through relationships and finding out that everything isn’t always as it seems at first and that eventually things go wrong. We follow five stories of couples and their hardships. The setting is in one building and they all intertwine with each other.
• 1 women waits for her husband to get back to tell him she’s found someone else’s panties in the house and she knows he’s cheating. The husband gets kicked out and we see him walk upstairs to another room where we see the girl he was cheating with let him in. the boyfriend comes back to see them together. Another girl is about to commit suicide because she hasn’t been called by the person she loves, however he comes to her risqué just as she drowns. Another girl is looking at photos of her past love and starts to burn them. The bed catches on fire and then the sprinkler system comes on in the building, all the couples look up.
• There is performance shots as well throughout the video of Leona in different gowns (which are beautiful and signify wealth) she is crying out her heart which illustrates the type of music which is soul/pop.
• Every room is in a different colour so we can easily distinguish between different stories.
• The video both illustrates and amplifies the lyrics because it shows the heart ache that is 'bleeding in love'