Titanium

David Guetta featuring vocals by Australian recording artist Sia

Written by Sia, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort and Afrojack

Lyrics – inner strength.

Themes and motifs -

Supernatural

Special powers

Puberty affecting body and mind

Inner strength

Standing up for what’s right

What happened to the boy – close up

Pans out to see the bigger picture

Wide and long shot – body language – small, scared face.

High school disaster – America = school shooting – audience assumptions

Boy looks like the victim of the disaster

Colour is dulled, very bland, showing emotionless

Representation: ideologies, values, messages, stereotypes, themes

All the characters are able bodied. However, it could be sent that his superpowers are seen as a different another from normality. Gives the same impression as someone that me have a disability that they are other to the normal.

In bedroom has childish things, hanging planets, teddys ect but he is doing something that would be more adult, or seen in an older age. Contrast between youth and adult, growing up.

We identify as a child – we sympathise with a child, most screen time. We are on the kid’s side.

Dirty house, unkept house, shows how he isn’t really cared for. In the 80s (a lot of freedom)

Reference to ET and Spielberg.

Alon and left in the world – parents and family have dioned and left the kid by himself

Autumn time – progression of time, lighting, and weather.

Dark and suggests that he is vulnerable and scared and alone.

Rep list –

Child vs adult – superior child

Child vs adult – In short space of time – childhood behind throwing teddys

Subverts young people stereotypes – calm, resilience under pressure

Camera –

Chase = tracking long shots of the boy and action. Walking, running.

Cutaway shots of various parts of the boy’s body without revelling the whole – so the audience is piercing it all together. (Little enigma, in fatal position looking vulnerable)

Extreme close-up shot of the boy curled up on the floor, vulnerability etc. (made to empathise with him)

Long shots of him at home, living, empathising

Menacing shelltoes that intercut between him packing and them coming in

House, threatening silhouettes of police – light under door, curtain, approaching door – tension - menacing authority figures.

Long shot of him in the hallway and he looks very small in foetal position which asks the audience to empathise with him straight away.

Beat drops to cycling scene and high action and fast paced – long two shot of ladies running in 80s exercise outfits and this slows down.

Special powers – school, teddy spinning, keys, explosion

Mise En Scene –

Closed of body language, head in hands, vulnerability, doesn’t want to realize what he has done.

Home setting and messy, neglect and sacred.

When he throws away child props. Flinging off his childhood.

Weather and lighting, autumn.

Beginning school is muted colours and lighting, contrast with home.

Dull colour clothing – emotionless

Teddy spinning above the police gives him superiority

Keys, Bike, TV, Bullets, Hat, Weapons = superior and determination

Adults vs children

Same position at the beginning as the end, infer the same thing happened in both situations

Sound –

Dance track

Titanium is the strongest metal = song represents strength and resilience, “I am titanium”

Explosion at the end – explosion in the music

Tech – beat, speed, rhythm

Connotations of gun violence – shoot me down, fire away, machine gun,

Bullet proof vest

(all reference to his resilience, strength, realisation of power)

Emotionally – build up, fuelling energy, upbeat – parallel to the mirative slow paced when audience is learning about satiation. Fast paced and action genre.

‘Shoot me down, but I get up’

‘I’m criticized, but all your bullets ricochet’

‘Nothing to lose’

‘I won’t fall’

Editing –

Time passing = growing up from child to man.

Screen time, the boy has the most – audience knows protagonist, we side with him.

Straight cuts

Speeds up with chorus

SPFx – teddy and keys fly, grabs the keys, explosion

Order of narrative – three act narrative, school, home, woods

Linier narrative, what happens next

Three distinct scenes

Intercutting between strength and vulnerability