The Prodigy- Firestarter
The music video Firestarter by The Prodigy starts off with loud music, which on every main beat, the lights in the tunnel start to light up. From this we can see that the music matches the editing which makes more of a cinematic impact on the audience. The use of simple backgrounds and setting can show how the singer wants the min focus of attention to be on him, and the chaos, within the music video. The use of middle/long shots can show the unnatural, dance movements the singer is using. The use of the close up shots can demonstrate his almost devil like persona. This can be conveyed by the mise-en-scene. The hairstyle of the main singer has two spikes made with his head, therefore could signify devil horns. This was apart of the punk rock genre, which can be shown by the type of music being played along with the mannerisms of the singer, very violent, 'in your face' and going "crazy" in type with the music. There is a clear relationship between the lyrics and the visuals as the music is quite violent, and the visuals of the singer, who appears to have a "drunken swagger" to him. This music video can be applied to Goodwin's key features distinguished in music videos as there are a lot of close ups of the main singer. This allows the audience to see and love the main singer as well as being able to uphold their own star image
Madonna -4 minutes
The music video 4 minutes by Madonna which features Justin Timberland and Justin Timberlake starts off with Justin Timberland rapping. The use of Madonna having these two popular well known men within their industry maybe so that she can reach out to a wider audience. The video then goes into a mixture of shots of Justin Timberlake and Madonna singing while jumping over different props which can make the video more exciting for the viewer. There are a mixture of long and close up shots of Madonna in a corset. This can show how she is objectifying her body for the male gaze. At the end of the music video there is a small dance break which can help the audience to be entertained.
Spice Girls-wannabe
The music video Wannabe by the Spice Girls starts of with the five of the girls singing in the street. The whole music video has no cuts init. This make it feel as if the audience is coming along with the girls over the journey of the music video. There are different shots ranging from long and medium can show how the camerawork is designed for the audience to see their bodies. Objectifying them but also making sure the audience can see their dance movements. The costume for all five girls are in short dresses or tight trousers which once again objectifies their bodies to the male gaze. This can also represent the star image to the audience.
Lily Allen- The Fear
The song The Fear by Lily Allen starts off with Lily Allen in a caravan singing giving a direct mode of address to the camera. The use of birds eye shots can help the audience see the grand gesture of a man carrying her while other men are dancing behind her. Each different room in the setting has almost a different personality. For example the first room with all of the men, the bedroom with lots of food and children's toys, and the third room where she is surrounded by presents. This can show that the music video is based on almost a child's memories. When outside of the house and there are lots of balloons, which can link in to child memories as children enjoy balloons and playing with them. The use of the song title, "The Fear" links in with the music video as she is fearing growing up, which can be represented by the child like references throughout the video.
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Sunday, 28 January 2018
newspaper-set text industries
THE DAILY MIRROR
The newspaper the Daily Mirror is owned by Trinity Mirror. Trinity mirror is the largest British newspaper, magazine, and digital publisher. They have over 150 nationally and regionally newspaper titles. Some of the national newspapers that they publish are, Daily mirror, daily record, Sunday mirror, Sunday people and Sunday mail. Plus 80 websites. Trinity Mirror is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The Daily mirror is a tabloid paper which is aimed at the demographic, C1C2DE,They are a left wing newspaper which can be shown by their front cover on Trump winning the US election in 2016. and the set text is was published on 10th novemeber 2016.
Cultural context
Trumps extreme policies that drew criticism from both sides of the political spectrum, as he had "A record of racist and sexist behaviour and a lack of political experience".
The daily mirror front page shows American iconography in the subverted image of the statue of liberty. This connotes despair. The use of dark clouds potentially foreshadows the future events of while Trump is in power. This positions the American population to blame for Trump's presidency. Ellipsis- foreshadowing. The use of Binary opposites in the front cover, "you" and "them" can represent the global impact of his presidency. therefore showing a particular significant ideology.
within the article and the front cover, there has been a highlight of immigration concerns and loss of jobs as a central to votesrs decisions to vote for Trump. This highlights the newspapers viewpoints.
Do we have press pluralarity in the UK?
THE TIMES
The times newspaper is a British newspaper is a central/ right leaning newspaper therefore they are in favour of Donald Trump being in power. The Times is owned by Newscorp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. American iconography is shown throughout the front cover, as there is American flag behind Trump and the vice president.
The newspaper the Daily Mirror is owned by Trinity Mirror. Trinity mirror is the largest British newspaper, magazine, and digital publisher. They have over 150 nationally and regionally newspaper titles. Some of the national newspapers that they publish are, Daily mirror, daily record, Sunday mirror, Sunday people and Sunday mail. Plus 80 websites. Trinity Mirror is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The Daily mirror is a tabloid paper which is aimed at the demographic, C1C2DE,They are a left wing newspaper which can be shown by their front cover on Trump winning the US election in 2016. and the set text is was published on 10th novemeber 2016.
Cultural context
Trumps extreme policies that drew criticism from both sides of the political spectrum, as he had "A record of racist and sexist behaviour and a lack of political experience".
The daily mirror front page shows American iconography in the subverted image of the statue of liberty. This connotes despair. The use of dark clouds potentially foreshadows the future events of while Trump is in power. This positions the American population to blame for Trump's presidency. Ellipsis- foreshadowing. The use of Binary opposites in the front cover, "you" and "them" can represent the global impact of his presidency. therefore showing a particular significant ideology.
within the article and the front cover, there has been a highlight of immigration concerns and loss of jobs as a central to votesrs decisions to vote for Trump. This highlights the newspapers viewpoints.
Do we have press pluralarity in the UK?
- The Sunday times/daily mirror - are owned by Trinity mirror
- The guardian/ The observer- are owned by Scott trust Limited
- The Daily telegraph/Sunday telegraph- press holding, Barclay Brothers
- Daily Express/Sunday express/daily star- Richard Desmond
- Daily mail- Lord rothermere and general trust pic
THE TIMES
The times newspaper is a British newspaper is a central/ right leaning newspaper therefore they are in favour of Donald Trump being in power. The Times is owned by Newscorp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. American iconography is shown throughout the front cover, as there is American flag behind Trump and the vice president.
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Set text trump work
The denotation of the use of the statue is showing that America is no longer a free country. This can be represented the use of the statue covering her face, as if the country is worried for its safety . The use of the black smoke can show how there is potential war due to the fact that president trump is now in power. As Trump is right wing and the newspaper is obviously left wing, we can see that the newspaper is not happy about the fact that Trump has been elected. The use of 'What have they done?' can show how the newspaper believes that Trump will ruin America instead of 'make it great'. Hence showing how disastrous the newspaper believes Trump is as president of the United states.
The use of showing Donald Trump with his fist in he air can show that the newspaper 'the Times' is a neutral newspaper however in this article it appears that they are more right winged, this is because it looks as if they are happy that Trump was elected. As well as showing that he is powerful and dominant in comparison to the Vice president standing next to him who doesn't look very superior. The use of the caption 'The New World' can show how they believe Trump being in power will benefit America hugely, and will keep to his tag line, 'Make America great Again.' the use of the american flag behind them can show how patriotic he is, therefore showing how much he cares for the country.
Tuesday, 2 January 2018
Different trump victory newspaper front covers- analysis
The image from the Daily Mail show Trump to be described as a 'earthquake'. This can represent that much like a earthquake will destruct and destroy most things within its path. The use of the picture of Trump standing in quite a strong pose can show how even though he is now president there are many that fear his presidency due to how he proposes to run The Unites States of America.
The image above shows the 'Daily News' front cover of when Donald Trump won the US election in 2016. The use of the dramatic 'Trump is Hitler' can show that the newspaper evidently did not want Trump in the office. This can show how they believe that Trump would start a war due to him making racist remarks.
differences and similarities between different types of newspaers.
Broadsheet newspapers follow a more serious ad formal tone in comparison to tabloid newspapers. Broadsheets are used to show facts of current fairs. Examples of newspapers which are broadsheet are 'The Daily Telegraph', 'The Times', 'The independent', etc. Broadsheet newspapers tend to be a lot bigger in size in comparison to tabloid newspapers. They are double the size which ensures more content.
Whereas Tabloid newspapers are more informal and follow gossip surrounding celebrities and other well known people . Examples of this is 'The Sun', 'The Daily Mirror', 'The Daily Star', etc. Tbloid newspapers are smaller in size du to not a lot of content needed especially in daily newspapers.
Whereas Tabloid newspapers are more informal and follow gossip surrounding celebrities and other well known people . Examples of this is 'The Sun', 'The Daily Mirror', 'The Daily Star', etc. Tbloid newspapers are smaller in size du to not a lot of content needed especially in daily newspapers.
Monday, 18 December 2017
Hammer Films
- Hammer films is a film company which was founded in November 1934, it is now one of the oldest film companies existing. In the past they have made movies such as 'The Curse Of Frankenstein', The horror of Dracula', and more recently 'The Women In Black', and the 'Shawshank Redemption'.
- Hammer Films are known for their defining films of the horror genre, however only one third of their movies are made in the specific horror genre. The rest of the movies are sci-fi, psychological and thrillers.
- From the start up of the company to the 50's, the content used for Hammer Films was predominantly crime/thriller kinds of movies. However in the 50's they started to make horror films.
- The company made history when making the first fully colour film, 'The Curse Of Frankenstein'.
- Their movies mostly consisted of gothic horror movies, however in the 70's as colour television was emerging, box office revenues decreased. From this Hammer films realised that movies under the genre of gothic horror were not appealing to the audience anymore.
- The film 'Women In Black' which was released in 2012, was Hammer Film's first theoretical ghost story movie. The movie made $130 million worldwide, therefore making it the bigger indie horror films ever. This also leads on to Hammer Films making its first ever sequel, of 'The Women In Black: Angle of death.'
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Stupid girls music video analysis
Pink's Music video "Stupid girls" was released in 2006 and shows how girls in todays day and age tend to care more about their body image and how they look rather than their personality and how intelligent they are. The video represents women as being 'plastic bimbo's', only wanting to be thin and beautiful to get attention from men, and not for themselves.
The video starts of with a little girl having two figure on to her shoulders. These two figures represent the binary opposites of an angel and a devil. The angel wants the little girl to chose what she wants to do instead of conforming to societies pressures of becoming only invested in her outwards appearance. It can be denoted that the girl is a tom boy, represented by the rugby jersey that she is wearing, however she is pressured into liking typical 'girly' stuff in order to fit in.
The use of the lyric "What happened to the dream of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent", can show how the feminist movements of the 1920's, 60's and 80's, worked hard for men and women to be equal, however women of today are turning back on the hard work in which women such as Emily Davison who died for her cause. This can be shown as the women represented within the video, only care for their public image. This lyric can also show how women are perceived as sexual objects, and this has been reiterated through the radical feminists argument by Andrea Dworkin. Dworkin's argues that pornographic representations of women, which can be seen in this video and in many other music videos, has socialized men into acts of rape and sexual violence in their real lives. The next lyric, "They travel in packs of two and three with their itsy bitsy doggies, and their teeny-weeny tees " can show the type of woman represented within this music video are more concerned on material objects and showing off as much skin as possible in order to satisfy the male gaze. The reference to "itsy bitsy doggies" could be a reference to Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian and Brittany Spears, as they were major female icons of the 2000, Another representation of these icons is the scene which is supposed to look like a sex tape, as both Pink and the male actor are in their under garments. The use of this scene could be a reference to how Kim Kardashian got famous, due to her sex tape.
The use of the lyric further on within the music video, "The disease is growing, it's epidemic" can show how Pink is acting as if its a disease. This can show how the media has polluted young girls minds in doing everything for a males attention, as well as in order to compete with other girls. While this lyric is sung, the image of pink with markings along her body where potential plastic surgery could be done, i.e.- around the breasts, making her waist smaller and getting rid of excess stomach fat. This can show how due to one or two star, most girls are catching on to this widespread disease of being perfect and not caring for knowledge and inner beauty. But rather being tanned, curvy and thin.
Pink makes a mention of bulimia, a very serious disease however talks about it s if it is a joke. she enters the scene saying "Oh My God I've had so many calories, like 300", and a girl next to her is making her self throw up. Pink asks for the toothbrush and puts it down her throat while shouting "I want to be skinny!". The scene shows another side to bulimia as many young teenage girls can be influenced quickly therefore if they see someone of known power, for example a celebrity making themselves vomit in order to become skinner, younger girls within their teens are likely to do this as well. However the scene is insensitive to people suffering from bulimia as it is a mental illness which shouldn't be made fun of through Pink mocking most causes in the music video.
The pink music video stupid girls is a post feminism text as it is being used as a contract with the prevailing ideologies of feminism. The ideas can show that women have the right to do what ever they want, and now they are fighting for equality amongst everyone therefore it does not matter whether or not a women prefers to look after the way she looks more rather than doing activity's such as sports. As well as this it could potentially be represented as women wanting to look nice for themselves as well as for the male gaze, as they have the desire to be considered attractive to the other gender, in heterosexual views. Moreover this matter, it can show how the text is in fact both going against the views of historical feminism as well as being apart of the post feminism theories
The video starts of with a little girl having two figure on to her shoulders. These two figures represent the binary opposites of an angel and a devil. The angel wants the little girl to chose what she wants to do instead of conforming to societies pressures of becoming only invested in her outwards appearance. It can be denoted that the girl is a tom boy, represented by the rugby jersey that she is wearing, however she is pressured into liking typical 'girly' stuff in order to fit in.
The use of the lyric "What happened to the dream of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent", can show how the feminist movements of the 1920's, 60's and 80's, worked hard for men and women to be equal, however women of today are turning back on the hard work in which women such as Emily Davison who died for her cause. This can be shown as the women represented within the video, only care for their public image. This lyric can also show how women are perceived as sexual objects, and this has been reiterated through the radical feminists argument by Andrea Dworkin. Dworkin's argues that pornographic representations of women, which can be seen in this video and in many other music videos, has socialized men into acts of rape and sexual violence in their real lives. The next lyric, "They travel in packs of two and three with their itsy bitsy doggies, and their teeny-weeny tees " can show the type of woman represented within this music video are more concerned on material objects and showing off as much skin as possible in order to satisfy the male gaze. The reference to "itsy bitsy doggies" could be a reference to Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian and Brittany Spears, as they were major female icons of the 2000, Another representation of these icons is the scene which is supposed to look like a sex tape, as both Pink and the male actor are in their under garments. The use of this scene could be a reference to how Kim Kardashian got famous, due to her sex tape.
The use of the lyric further on within the music video, "The disease is growing, it's epidemic" can show how Pink is acting as if its a disease. This can show how the media has polluted young girls minds in doing everything for a males attention, as well as in order to compete with other girls. While this lyric is sung, the image of pink with markings along her body where potential plastic surgery could be done, i.e.- around the breasts, making her waist smaller and getting rid of excess stomach fat. This can show how due to one or two star, most girls are catching on to this widespread disease of being perfect and not caring for knowledge and inner beauty. But rather being tanned, curvy and thin.
Pink makes a mention of bulimia, a very serious disease however talks about it s if it is a joke. she enters the scene saying "Oh My God I've had so many calories, like 300", and a girl next to her is making her self throw up. Pink asks for the toothbrush and puts it down her throat while shouting "I want to be skinny!". The scene shows another side to bulimia as many young teenage girls can be influenced quickly therefore if they see someone of known power, for example a celebrity making themselves vomit in order to become skinner, younger girls within their teens are likely to do this as well. However the scene is insensitive to people suffering from bulimia as it is a mental illness which shouldn't be made fun of through Pink mocking most causes in the music video.
The pink music video stupid girls is a post feminism text as it is being used as a contract with the prevailing ideologies of feminism. The ideas can show that women have the right to do what ever they want, and now they are fighting for equality amongst everyone therefore it does not matter whether or not a women prefers to look after the way she looks more rather than doing activity's such as sports. As well as this it could potentially be represented as women wanting to look nice for themselves as well as for the male gaze, as they have the desire to be considered attractive to the other gender, in heterosexual views. Moreover this matter, it can show how the text is in fact both going against the views of historical feminism as well as being apart of the post feminism theories
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