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Perform syntagmatic analysis of the video. Make use of [|this information].

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By Tanya Galanova

The woman in the video personates Carmen and tells us what is love and how she feels it. This we can see even without the translation of the song. Her body language and facial expression show that. So the video consists of the next shots: 1. The very beginning of the performance (just several seconds) when the orchestra has already started to play music. I would say that particularly this moment is impersonation of Maria Callas in Carmen. And that is what we can name the beginning of the story. 2. The woman’s singing. We hear not only her voice, we see her emotions and the way she feels this love. And the orchestra music with Maria’s singing is something indivisible. In small intervals between parts of the song the orchestra play louder that is associated with blazing feelings.


 * By Irina Shemelina**

I suppose that this is just performance woman at the concert, no more. Her emotions and movements are monotonous, so I don't think that she conveys a story, it's just nice performance of the song.

She enjoys singing process, it is evident from: • pause that she did at the beginning of the presentation (when the orchestra plays), • languid singing

She is satisfied with her performance, so in the end she pauses while enjoying applause.

In my opinion, the sequence consists of 3 shots: 1) Orchestra plays and the woman prepares for singing; 2) The woman sings showing Carmen’s character; 3) The end of the performance. The audience applauds, the woman enjoys her successful performance; Only in conjunction with each other  these shorts create a holistic beautiful performance – the story of amazing woman Carmen.
 * By Nastya Khokhlova**

This video is a performance, which include the story about Carmen. To my mind this performance consists of 4 shots. 1. The introduction, orchestra begins to play. 2. The development of the story and the culmination. The woman sings. She plays the role, create Carmen’s character. 3. The end of the story about Carmen. Orchestra stops playing, the woman stops singing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. The end of the performance. The audience applauds, the woman enjoys her successful performance. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think that this video is a story about beautiful, proud, emotional woman Carmen. At the same time we understand that it only performance about her.
 * By Anastasiya Bondarchuk**

By Katya Melnikova Maria Callas and a great orchestra perform the story about Carmen. This work of art is shown by the sequence of these shots:

//Then the orchestra plays without any singing and it prepares us to another shot. Time is faster and music is louder.// //Then the orchestra is just playing again and ‘Carmen’ is smiling, we can see that she understands how glorious she is.//
 * 1st shot** – pause before the performance. Everybody is expecting something great and spectacular. Maria Callas has already started to live as a main heroine – Carmen. She is beautiful and self-confident.
 * 2nd shot** – the orchestra is playing softly and Maria Callas is also singing softly and gently. This shot lasts till 1:35.
 * 3rd shot** – Maria starts singing louder and more emphatically. This shot has a different meaning in it. There is a climax in this shot. We see the main heroine more confident and passionate, even a little bit arrogant. It lasts till 3:30.
 * 4th shot** – it is the final part. Maria accomplishes her part with the strong singing. She shows that her words are meaningful and irrefutable. She is extremely powerful with her beauty, will and confidence.
 * 5th shot** – everybody is applauding. The performance is grand.

Baffling complexityin finding and defining all these pieces makes this performance a full story, a work of art, not just a sequence of shots. It is the performance about the story of love of this beautiful and confident woman – Carmen.

By Ksusha Arefyeva In my opinion, this video is a performance, this woman plays her role singing Carmen. And she is trying to tell us a story about her heroine. This story consists 3 shots: 1 orchestra plays and woman preparing to play her role 2 the woman sings 3 the woman stops singing and orchestra finishing the performance All together these shots organized a story about Carmen. We hear applauses and understand that this is the end. So it makes me think that this is not justa performance, it is a story about woman in love.

I suppose, that this piece of video shows us two different syntagmas, which can’t exist without each other. The first one shows us a woman, which is standing on the stage, she is preparing for the singing, at the same period of time the orchestra is playing, Maria Callas is singing (her aria is interrupted by small periods of acting and silence), an audience is applauding the singer. The second sequence of episodes is connected with the story of Carmen. Beautiful woman wants to tell about her feelings. At the beginning of the story she is calm, but during all the story her mood is changing, she becomes arrogant and passionate, at the end (when the woman is not singing anymore) we see her as imperious, independent and determined person, who doesn’t depend on man. As for me, it’s really difficult to differentiate two sides of the video: singing Maria Callas and the character which she tries to show. So, we can point out two different but not independent episodes, each of these episodes consist of a list of paradigms which help us to understand the meaning of the video.
 * By Ekaterina Zemlyanuchina**

By Olga Kaptieva This story consists of two parts, which are bound, but independent. First part shows Maria Callas not singing. This is a story of triumph and calm interchanging. We can see the incessant change of facial expressions of Maria Callas and hear the orchestra, which creates narration. Different themes are following one after another, and Maria Callas shows the mood of the music. First there is agitation, then calm, tension that preparess the climax of triumph. The again peace that Maria Callas shows by the tender movements of her head, lowering her gaze. After the there is exultation. Maria calla raises her head triumphantly and takes the audience in a glance proudly. After that there comes second story. This is the story of a dialog between Maria Callas and the orchestra. Maria tells a difficult story about love. She always lowers the level of pathos, and the orchestra raises it to the triumph. Maria Callas changes the moods in the twinkle of an eye: passion, narration, timidity, joy, flirting... Love is everchanging, and so is Maria Callas. She finishes her story with high-pitched triumph and a cunning smile. I would interpret it as a story of love that she first listens and just thinks to herself, and then tells to the audience.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">By Alina Mansurova <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In my view, it is a performance including a story of Carmen. There is a sequence of four shots and one frame which make up a scene. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">So, it is Callas’s performance during which she is telling us a story of Carmen. If there were no applauses in the end I could say that it is the story of Carmen, not the performance of Callas. The orchestra helps her to create Carmen’s character. The character of Carmen could be understood only from a paradigmatical analysis (body language and mimics of Callas).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The first shot **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: there is silence, Maria Callas is warming to her role and preparing her spectators to the performance. Orchestra is helping her.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The second shot **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: the period before the pause (around 1:38) when the singer is showing one of the features of Carmen’s character – she is acting as a nice lady.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The third shot **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: the period before the final aria (around 3:50) when she is showing the reverse side of a coin – she is acting as a bit annoyed, harsh and arrogant, what shows us her strong will.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The frame **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: the final aria which is not only the end of the performance but also the full stop in the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The forth shot **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: applauses and Callas’s reaction (her cheerful smile).

By Nastya Abaikina In this video we see some great performance that includes a story. This story is about one woman Carmen. As it is a performance, an opera, we see a singing woman who is playing Carmen and telling us about her heroine. How does it mean what it means? To answer this question we have to consider the sequence which, to my opinion, consists of 4 parts: Why does it mean what it means? To my mind, it’s kind of difficult to answer this question performing only syntagmatic analysis. We have a sequence of several parts but it doesn’t make us think about this particular performance. That is, there are some other performances which look like this one. So, I think, it’s not enough to perform only syntagmatic analysis without paradigmatic to distinguish this performance from others. At least, we have to consider body language of a singing woman, her facial expression, arm action, her movement onstage and so on. Combination of two analyses will help us to find some specific details and to tell the difference between this performance and others.
 * 1) A short pause which is necessary for orchestra and a singing woman to prepare for performance.
 * 2) The beginning of the story, orchestra is playing.
 * 3) Orchestra keeps playing. Woman is not only singing about Carmen but also playing her.
 * 4) The end of the story. The audience really enjoys the performance and applauds the opera singer.

By Kseniya Romasheva This video is about the woman who enjoys perfoming on the stage. The sequence consists of 3 shots: 1. Orchestra plays, the woman stands on the stage and prepares for singing. 2. The woman sings. 3. The woman keeps standing on the stage, audience applauds. These shots are orginised as the scene ( shots implying temporal continuity). In all three shots attention is focused on this woman, that's why we can say that the story is about her.

__<span style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Kalashnikova Svetlana __

I consider that this video clip is a performance. All performance is a scene which consists of some connected shots. 1 shot – applause. 2 shot – orchestra. 3 shot – the singer is acting Carmen. She is imitating her behavior and manners. Thus, she prepares the listener for the aria. 4 shot – the singer performs the aria and the orchestra is playing. 5 shot – applause. This very syntagm differs from others by the third shot. It’s not a lot of performances where the singer tries to prepare the listener for the aria. As to the view point, first of all we see the singer and the orchestra. Then we see close up only the singer. We can see her facial expressions and body language. The spectators aren’t visible to us, because their reaction is predicted. The main figure is the singer.

By Gulya Akhatova

I think this video consist of the main four parts. They are orchestra, pause, orchestra and singing, applause. For this performance is remarkable long play of orchestra. I think it connects with importance of play of orchestra for this performance on the whole. In other words orchestra is the main part as singing ( in comparision with other performances). Then follows some pause. In my opinion, It is something like transitional point between the play of orchestra and singing. In this momenth, the singer is preparing to start singing. We can see her face expression, how she smiles. Probably, she is preparing audience by this. The next is singing. After singing follows applause which are typical for all succesful performance. __**By Ekaterina Gordeyeva**__

The performance of the aria, which is called “Carmen” does not make special effect on me. When we hear the word "performance”, we expect a singer or musician, who plays or sings his piece of music. I’m sure this is the main point of performance. Somebody does the performance, but still we can find additional executors. In this video the orchestra plays this role. The singer performs her arias very confident, her voice is so pleasant. Actually, we can mention one very unusual part in the beginning of this video-the girl doesn’t sing almost a half of performance. I consider that she is creating the image of the heroine Carmen. We can come to this conclusion because of her body language and face expression. For me doesn’t distinguish this very performance to the other one. In this video I haven’t found anything specific, anything remarkable and unusual.

**By Elena Men'shikova**There are four parts in this video. They are: prelude, playing of the orchestra+singer acting Carmen, singing, applause. Prelude is a __usual__ part of musical performances. Then orchestra is playing __virtuosicly__ and the singer is __acting__ Carmen. We see it in her smile and body language. Then she's singing really wonderfully. And we hear the sound of applause. __Without the third part it would be usual performance of "Carmen"__ when singer is singing with accompanement of some instrument (piano most of all). But here the orchestra is also the participant. So in this case it is the __successfu__l performance of "Carmen" by __famous virtuosic__ orchestra and __famous__ singer. That's why we hear the __loud__ sound of applause after it. If it was unsuccessful there wouldn't any applause or it would be not so loud.

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By Tatyana Zlobina. I suppose this video consists of four principal parts, which are orchestra, singer's acting, singing and applause. These parts can be mostly found in every performance. Each performance has an introduction. Here we can see a prelude, where the orchestra plays for some period of time allowing the audience to plunge into atmosphere of Italian life. The next step is acting. That part is also important because the singer acquaints us with Carmen. Through her facial expression and body language we can find out a lot about the main heroine of the play ( her behavior, habits and even character). The main merit of this performance is singing. I have never heard such a wonderful voice. Her singing amazes people. Singer's voice merges with orchestra that has a remarkable effect on people. And of course, applause. No one performance can be met without people's applauding. That is like a reward for the marvelous performance.