“your on your phone with your girlfriend she's upset”- We get musical visualisation where we get Taylor Swifts point of view, how she is seeing her neighbour on the phone with his girlfriend arguing. There is a shot reverse shot what he's doing and what she is thinking. We are able to see that she cares for him as she looks interested looking over what she is doing. Then writes “you ok?” to prove she is caring. However we are able to tell that she is geeky from wearing “glasses” and a colourful t-shirt. Whereas his hair is perfectly straight with a plain t-shirt.
However later on there is a medium shot of her wearing pyjamas and wrote a sign saying “I love you” therefore the narrative story is that she wants him to break up with his girlfriend as she loves him. We are able to tell this as there is a reflection of her in the window with a sad face.
In the chorus Taylor is dancing around lip singing with a hair brush, changing clothes as she is in front of her mirror with different stereotypical styles that teenagers wear. You could argue that she is being a stereotypical girl singing in her room thinking about her love. On the other hand we get a point of view shot from the guy where she is dancing in front of her window with him laughing at her showing he has an interest in her. This suggests that she is foreshadowing whats going to happen in the future.
“Walking streets” Her crush walks out from his house in jeans and sits next to Taylor then puts her hair behind her ear making direct eye contact, having a close up of her but showing that he has interest with her. “Watch you doing with a girl like that?” showing a bit of jealousy as all she wants is him.
Then there is a change of scene by a swipe of editing, then they're in a stereotypical american high school and he’s the quarter back, his girlfriend is “cheer captain” and she's on the “bleechers”
As the story follows he finds out his girlfriend is cheating with one of his team mates. Blonde Taylor looks shocked and upset for her “crush”
Then theres a cut back to their houses when he’s going to prom and their writing notes.
She then goes and surprises him at the prom and brings her “i love you” note with her and when she opens it music visualisation happens when she sings “you belong with me” Then he shows her his note and they become girlfriend and boyfriend and stereotypically live happily ever after.
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