Following Katy Perry

Katy Perry- first album. (2005)

Katy begins looking rather young with quite childish attitudes, indie costume and make up, subtle rebellion. quite silly, and edgy. The use of the Asian cities in the background suggest gentleness.
She doesn't have the image she has grown into. Not very sexually provocative, scruffy hair, still quite laid back lyrics. In this song she tends to use mostly mid shots including lots of Mise-en scene . The mise-en scene however is mostly highlighted through long shots. Unlike any of her other videos, this video has effects such as text that appears on screen, differentiating this video from her others.

One Of The Boys (2007-2009)
Quite sexualised lyrics reflect womanly sexualism. male gaze. Songs like 'kissed a girl' show her as being sexually experimental. Lots of short, revealing clothing. Crazy colours, very bright, very quick changing of ideas. style is very different almost every video. very jokey, un-serious attitudes. for example, in Hot N Cold, she gets jilted but instead of it being depressing, it is still a very upbeat song and the way she goes mad almost trying to hunt him down is rather humorous.
Throughout this album, she is fully thriving, energetic, crazy and sexually provocative.



She then changes her style to something that almost contrasts all of the rest of her videos on this album. This video alike the song is very gentle and slow. Clothes are still quite raunchy, however, she still takes the appropriate fashion of the time and modernizes it. Brings in themes of war, and shows a gentle side to Katy.



However, she returned to her crazy extravagant style, as we can very easily see, she is wearing very bright colours and crazy styles. Everything in this video is rather crazy and extravagant to match with the lyrics of the song.



Teenage Dream (2010-2012)
In her album teenage dream, almost every video she makes has a different style. I would call this her experimental stage, where rather then focusing on a set style, she goes for as many things as possible that are altogether very bizzare. She goes from having bright pink and bright blue hair, to dressing up as an alien, to having fireworks flying out of her chest and  being a geeky teenage girl with a face full of braces. This album is full of many very successful videos and altogether is probably the most diverse album she has made, but as an album, the craziness of her ideas does fit the title as all the videos do conform to the 'teenage dream.'

For example, firework, alike her earlier work is very natural but still maintains the bizzareness that usually is associated with Katy Perry, such as all of the magic tricks and the fireworks shooting out of all different body areas. however Katy has not strayed too far from what we know of her, she still is covered in glitter and other things that sparkle.



Last Friday night is fabulous because it is so very postmodern. the video includes clothing set in the 1980's however includes modern features such as a nintendo wii. It also is intertextual as it is based on films such as 'the breakfast club. the video also includes many other famous people acting as party guests, such as Rebecca Black  Corey Feldman, Debbie Gibson, Kenny G, Hanson, and Kevin McHale and Darren Criss.



Prism (current)
She has only released one song from this album to date, however, from what I can gather from roar, this is more of a natural look that Katy is embracing. This video has a lovely colour scheme but is not as crazily coloured as the luminous colours usually associated with Katy's videos. although this has  a beautiful colour scheme, it embraces the natural elements, she even has very natural looking make up on.