This video is meant for entertainment purposes. One watching this video can tell that they were doing this video for fun. They knew the words pretty well, so that was definitely a good thing. The song they sang is from the Disney movie Aladdin.
They did not have a lot of visual effects. A good visual effect they had was during the first chorus when the guy singing the male part pulled out an inflatable globe to represent “A whole new world.” The guy who sang the female part tried to act in character. He did some movements, like trying to twirl his hair, that related to that of a girl. Their arm movements were big, and they tried to move around on the screen some, but since the camera didn’t move, they didn’t have many places to go.
The video does not appear to have been edited. It looks as though they may have rehearsed it a few times, and then once they recorded it, they kept it as it was. I cannot know this for a fact, but it is my guess because there are moments that show this, like at the very end when they think it is done recording, so one of them walks back in where the camera is and starts laughing. I assume that they either used a camera propped on a shelf or a webcam on a computer to video their clip.
The meaning of the song is about love. It is hard to convey this message with two guys, one singing a guy part and one singing a girl part. They didn’t try too hard to get this message of love across to the viewers. There were a few times in the video where the one singing the girl part would bat his eyes at the other, but that was more comedic than romantic to me. As I said before, I don’t think that the two guys doing this video were really trying to create a romantic scene; I believe it was two guys bored in their dorm room, so they decided to make some people laugh.
