Music video Form and Conventions: Types of music video: performance -lip sync, live performance , choreographed/freestyle dance, playing instrument narrative -storyline/theme/motifs;linear/non-linear conceptual - abstract set of motifs that may have no obvious link to the lyric Things to analyse: Camera : angles, shot size, camera movement, framing Editing : cutting rate/ rhythm (to the rhythm / beat?), types of cut (matched, jump, cutaways), transitions, effects (including Special Effects SFX) Mise en scene : costume, makeup, props, location, lighting Lip sync and authorage / star quality, which links to… Representation : of the star, sexuality, gender, ethnicity / culture, subculture and genre, personality, celebrity and consumerism Audience : and how the video “positions” them; the male gaze; voyeurism Postmodernism: By nature hard to define, but might include: A mix and match aesthetic, taking influences from a range of...
Postmodernism: what is postmodernism? Postmodernism allows for cognitive dissonance - the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs or understandings Postmodernism allows for playfulness, parody and self- referentialism Jean Baudrillard and postmodernism: 1. The image is the reflection of a basic reality 2. The image masks a basic reality 3. The image masks the absence of a basic reality (plays at being an appearance) 4. Image bears no relation to any reality, it is purely a simulation and becomes a hyperreality Modernism- Modernism was about faith and optimism : Faith in people Faith institutions - religion, the law, family Applying Baudrillard to stranger things: The reality = real life 80's The image masks a basic reality = stranger things places itself in the 80's , basing it's entire series on the 80's and recreating the 80's. 'different 80's universe'- uses a lot of intertuextaulity from 80's films, e.t....
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