Rihanna- Russian roulette

The song is about being in a relationship and being afraid of getting hurt in the end. The music video is primarily narrative-based, featuring Rihanna, who plays Russian roulette with her lover.  This can somewhat reflects an incident that happened with Rihanna and her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown.

At the beginning of the video we can hear diegetic sounds such as the fan turning and something beeping, possibly from the controls. The sounds are echoing and becoming louder as the cutting gets faster.

The video starts off with Rihanna in a gas chamber, being watched by three guards through a window. The scene then moves to another room in the prison in which Rihanna and her lover sit at a table. Between them on the table is a gun. The room is dim lit with two lamps on the walls.

Another scene in which Rihanna is standing alone in a deserted wood, where a car is approaching toward her at high speed running her over. The scene has been shot at night, and so it is quite dark.

This is another shot of Rihanna in the gas chamber lying on the floor. The way the lighting has been done in this shot is really clever, with it shining through a hole in the wall focusing on Rihanna, enlightening her. In this frame the spotlight slowly moves as she gradually lifts her head up. The chamber looks dark and claustrophobic adding to the sinister atmosphere of the video.

Here we see blood dripping out of her chest as though she has been shot. At this point these lyrics are sung:
'And you can see my heart beating
Oh, you can see it through my chest 
Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving...'
This emphasises that there is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals.

During this point in the video there is a change in the tempo of the song changes. The cross-cutting becomes faster. This is an example of where frames have been used on top of other frames, to create a complicated effect, which could portray Rihanna's emotions. There is also a relationship between the music and the visuals.

Throughout the video, Rihanna makes jerky movements as though she is twitching. She looks confused and troubled. These fast movements have been created using fast cross-cutting between different frames.

In this shot Rihanna is floating in the water, and we see her getting shot with blood pouring out. There are three ways in which she dies, getting run over by a car, bleeding in a chair and getting shot in the water.