Madonna - Like a prayer

• Cinematic conventions
• Establishing shot, churchsuggests religion is involved
• Artist involved in the narrative
• Close-ups - convention of a music video
• Rhythmic editing - the actions are in time with the beat
• Religious figure - light on Madonna code for holy and religious
• Presage - a clue to whats going to happen later on - black Jesus behind bars
• Necklace (cross) - holy
• Not logical editing
• A sense of the what the song is about building within the performance
• Cuts in her (Madonna) hands (stigmata) - Jesus like
• KKK imagery of a burning cross - controversially racist
• If you get too nvolved in the story you are distracted from the message Madonna is trying to convey within her song