Intertextuality - Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years"

Intertextuality

An example of intertextuality is Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years". This was the soundtrack from the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2. The video features scenes from the film, amongst shots of Christina Perri  in a room surrounded by candles. Additionally, the video includes a wedding scene and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson saying they love each other.

A vast amount of music videos now incorporate cinema in them. The use of synergy when recording the soundtrack for a film not only promotes the film but also advertises the new music video. If this is successful, the artist themselves can become more well-known.

Here are some screenshots that show the mixture of Christina Perri in her own video, but also shots of scenes from the film:

These screenshots show intertextuality as we can see the wedding scene in the movie which is where the song plays in the film and this makes it significant to this film which has promoted it a lot because the Twilight series were all very popular, therefore the song would have then made a lot of money from it.