Promo image:

She is wearing a red top and red lipstick, which is often associated with seduction. The shoot only shows her lips and doesn’t show the rest of her face and she is slightly out of focus.  This also gives her a seductive look along with a sense of mystery.

Her name is spelled out in a necklace across the image and is in sharp focus, which makes her name stand out and the curvy lettering adds femininity.  With a tiger for the dot on the ‘i’ and gives slight glamour and a sense of danger.

This promo image shows her genre as Indie Pop as it is black and red. She also appears unique to other artists.

The image appeals to teenage girls due to gold chain necklace used to write her name as this is quite a fashionable thing to do.

Music video – Blackout

Genre Characteristics – dark colours, weird, close ups of lips,

Relationship of Video to Lyrics – ‘going home’ train going home. ‘Blackout’ theres many black scenes and dark colours and silhouettes, wearing a blindfold = blackout.

Visual and Music – Shots change on beat. End of song train slows, and beginning speeds up with song.

Demands of Record Label – First single.

Voyeurism – Mirrors, seeing lots of her. Gets shown lots of random images.

Intertextuality – there is none,.

Music Video – Desire

Genre Characteristics – Lots of red, Bright lights in dark rooms (chiaroscuro) , Holds a guitar. Scary animals

Relations of video to lyrics – desire and the colour red.  Fire and candles  and dilation of the pupils

Visual and music: shot changes and cuts in time with the beat,

Voyeurism: Anna looks directly into the camera, watching her play guitar from behind.

Intertextuality – there IS NONE!

Anna Calvi has released one album on June 20^th 2011.

Record label: domino records.

Anna Calvi is an English musician and was a nominee for BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll. 

Her self titled album reached number 40 in the charts on the 23^rd of January 2011.