One of the ways in which the two music videos are different is that in LAP we are offered a representation of black men that is positive. One section that illustrates this point is when we see Madonna's flashback vision of the attack on the young woman and the young black man acting as a good samaritan when he selflessly comes to her aid. This section has been skillfully constructed to position the audience as cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene and editing have all been used to great effect. If we look closely at this section we can identify that There are a range of shots used,a below eye level shot is used to create the effect that we as an audience look up to the character for his courage and willingness to go and help the girl who has been stabbed, even if it means that he is arrested in the process. There is also a medium close up, this hot is used to show more of the black mans emotions and general remorse for the woman, this shot also allows us to see that when the man is taken away by the police, the woman falls which shows that without his helping, the woman fails and will eventually die. There is also a medium long shot. The reason why this shot is used is that it shows the surrounding background which shows that it is a low rent area but it also enables us to see some of the mans facial emotions and his clothing. finally there is an eye level shot used, this is used because the sight of his sad eyes and distressed face help to create empathy and sympathy towards the character.

the sound used in the music video is almost completely non diagetic. What is meant by this term is that the sound that is used in a video is edited in to a film clip and the actual singing or speaking occurs somewhere else. The reason why they have used non diagetic sound in this music video is because it creates the effect of all of the focus being turned to the visual dialogue instead of the dialogue between characters. The lyrics in the music video have a loose link towards the occurances in the video, an example of this is like a prayer, this is emphasised early on in the video when we see madonna going to the church and praying for the black man who is behind bars to be let out.

in this music video, there is a quite diverse analysis of the mise-en-scene. we first realise that the music video is set in a low rent area which is possibly quite dodgy and overall it has quite an eery feel to it. We also see that the costumes are plain and the gangsters are wearing shabby and cheap looking clothing which you wouldn't expect to cost very much, whereas the black man is wearing a white collared shirt with a smart jacket and black working trousers but they are not steriotypical clothes for a young black male of the time to be wearing, also the fact that he is wearing smarter clothes than the gangsters helps to create a contrast between the two as we as the audience from the veru beginning feel that the gangsters are up to no good plainly down to the clothes that they are wearing and at first sight, we get the feeling that the black man is good and when he goes to help the woman we are not at all surprised by thes actions as we are hinted at what his personality is like through the clothes that he wears. We soon after meet the police man who is wearing a common police officers uniform of the time, this outfit is representative of the law and how the law back then was prejudiced against the blacks at the time. the first prop that we see is the back car seat which symbolises again that the area is low rent. We also see that there is a knife which here represents death and the police car later helps to show that bad things clearly happen a lot in that area as the police car was obviously travelling around slowly enough to see the black man holding a stabbed woman. We also can see his posture and facial expression, he is kneeling on the ground holding the stabbed woman who is lying in his arms. We can see that he is sad, shocked and confused about everything that is happening but when he is hand cuffed by the policeman, he dos not look at all suprised and the only sign shown is when he looks to Madonna to help him out of this bad situation.

In this music video, in terms of Editing we see that there is quite a quick pace between the shots, this is proven when we see that there are 14 short shots in the space of around 30 seconds. In the scenes, we get a chronological flashback to the stabbing and the arrest but after this scene, the story runs on in real time. The extremely quick pace generates energy and shows how quickly things can change as the black man goes from the good Samaritan to a supposed murderer in a very short space of time. The flash backs link the story to the church where the music video eventually ends.