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1. This Is America Childish Gambino Lyrics
2. Childish Gambino This Is America Meaning Of Song

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This Is America Childish Gambino Lyrics

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Follow us on: • • TrueFilm Resources: • TrueFilm Projects. If I posted in the wrong sub, I apologize, please do message me the right sub to post this in. I enjoy analyzing Music videos, movies and art ever since I was a young teen (since every English class I ever had was basically that.) and Wanted to share my analysis of '. I believe the final stanza is the key to the entire interpretation. More on that later. Opening shot, lots of light, everything is contained inside a hanger The ISO is pushed, lots of noise, the blacks are crushed (not at their full black values and are grey instead of black, same with the whites, they are never at their full values) This is not necessarily symbolic but a trick in photography when we want our photos to have a 'Analog / film' feel. This is reinforced by how the corners are rounded and cut off, quite telling that he wants an Analog feel, like most of his videos.

The Addition of the rounded corners / Vignetting looks a lot like diaporamas (He also later references Kodak pictures, as in the old tagline 'A kodak moment') Person being shot wears a distinct beige Dress shirt. The depth of Field is VERY shallow. In all his other videos, the DOF is pretty deep most of the time, but here, we are looking at something absurdly wide open, f/3.2 or even f/2.8.

Childish Gambino This Is America Meaning Of Song

The reason is clear, HE is the sole focus, not the violence, cars driving by with guns in the air or the body being dragged away, HE is the only focus, look at HIM dancing and being happy. When the Children in School uniforms come in (With the Same Beige dress shirt, linking back to the guitar man, perhaps he was their teacher?) for the first time, despite dancing right behind him, they are not in focus. VERY shallow depth of field. Don't forget the pale horse rider passing in the background, the literal symbol of death and the apocalypse. Or how completely useless/absent the police are.