"Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake: AMAZING!

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I’m here to guide you through this beautiful world full of audiovisual and its technics so… Let’s start.

They very first video I want to share and analyze with you is one of my favorites: Mirrors performed by Justin Timberlake.

If you haven’t seen it here is it:

Let’s see. First of all this video is almost a year old and I know it is a bit long (8min) but I chose it because I think Justin’s videos are always full of concepts and good music.

To begin with, this one video is special because the song runs around the context of mirrors and a person reflecting another one as a sign of love and as we can see the video is very literal talking about this love. Mirrors are the main idea and the director works with them in a simple but really representative way.

The love story is understandable, maybe a bit simple but it helps us get in the context of the song. What isn’t simple is the art used in this piece. The room full of mirrors but the kind of mirrors that an old couple would have at home, the clothes they are wearing:

The scenario around the couple meeting each other, the old clothes they used to wear when they were young:

And even the room when she’s crying full of stuff a young women would have:

As a photographer I can tell you that one of the main rules when it comes to making and image is that everything around the focus spot must be there on purpose. What I mean is that you can’t see even a fly around the couple when they are around the mirrors and when the screen interacts with them by dividing itself in three.

I’m a fan of this man and I loved the last part of him dancing around the mirrors and at the same time making us hallucinating about girls. I loved that even when you can see that the girls are wearing wigs and weird clothes, he never stops being the center of our attention:

"Mirrors" is the name of the song and it is use as metaphor around it but they are all over the place when it comes to the video and they are all perfectly in place for us to never see the camera or anything that isn’t placed there on purpose. We always are looking at something else in the mirror and that is playing with us as challenging us to focus our attention in something else but what is right in front of us.

If you find anything in this video that I didn’t see and that makes it not so perfect then you can let me know in a comment. I hope to come back later with something to say about new Katy Perry’s video: "Dark Horse”. 

Bye bye!