Explore how media language combines to create meaning in the music video Are we Ready by Two door cinema club. You should make reference to generic conventions, ideological perspectives, elements of narrative . Knee jerk reaction: This music video uses typical conventions of music videos in the indie pop genre such as lipsyncing to appeal to a larger audience. However, it also includes unconventional elements, making it highly polysemic. Plan: barthes codes levi-strauss buadrillard - postmodernism mise en scene editing sequencial/continuous narrative/ continuity editing - conventional intertextuality - advertisements - experimental proairetic heurmenutic polysemic fast paced editing bright colours shaky camera work deliberately low production values montage ideology - consumerism beatmatched lipsync variety of camera angles POV binary oppositions direct mode of address lyrics appear...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msJoeYVUYE moody, green/blue. intense emotion dull and moody music sets the theme. -- R.E.S.I.S.T.S Recurring aspects of genre - the dead return/rise -meeting of survivors - or rather the returned -dam levels sink and power goes out occasionally Elements of plot/narrative -the 'return' from the dead as Todorovian disruption -binary oppositions - living vs dead, past vs present -orpheus narrative archetype - deals with loss- the families of returned -denouement- alternate scenarios -not really any narrative closure - lots of questions -enigma codes throughout - lots of questions Stock Characters or archetypes -eerie child (exceptional powers) -arrogant gung-ho (extremely or overly zealous or enthusiastic. -disrupted family unit - the character who cant let go - new 'family' community created Iconography - stereotypical or unique imagery -blank stares -decaying flesh -blood -mist/darkness Settings -the mall or community...
madonna/whore complex - women he admires and respects // women he is attracted to and therefore disrespects - sigmund freud - virtuous, nurturing, saintly and sexually repressed // sensual, sexualised and desirable without purity comodity fetishism gender performativity - girls and boys, toilets conforming to expected roles Gender performativity is a term first used by the feminist philosopher Judith Butler in her 1990 book Gender Trouble. She argues that being born male or female does not determine behavior. Instead, people learn to behave in particular ways to fit into society. The idea of gender is an act, or performance. Judith Butler - theories of gender performativity identity is a performance, and it is constructed through a series of acts and expressions that we perform every day while there are biological differences dictated by sex, our gender is defined through this series of acts. these may include the ways we walk, talk, dress and s...
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