Riptide Flashcards

1
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What do music videos demonstrate?

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Genre and characteristics.

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2
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What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

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Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.

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What’s the relationship between music and visuals?

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Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.

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4
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What’s a motif?

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Something which artists (for example) may develop a visual style across their work.

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5
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Record labels will include the need for lots of _________

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Close ups.

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6
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What is the notion of looking?

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Screens within screens, telescopes, etc.

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7
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What does intertextual references mean?

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References to films, tv, programmes, other music videos, etc.

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8
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What are certain aspects of the Riptide music video?

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  • links lyrics to music video
  • women are sexualised and looked down on
  • the woman singing gets more distraught as it goes.
  • only involving women.
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9
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Riptide facts…

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  • indie folk pop
  • it was Vance joy’s first single to be released in USA (originally from Australia)
  • platinum selling single
  • directed by Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun
  • almost 100 million views on YouTube.
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10
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Who directed Vance joy Riptide?

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Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun

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11
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Which music company produced Riptide?

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Atlantic. (Subsidiary of Warner)

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12
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What was Vance Joys released date?

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May 2013 (worldwide)

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13
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Which genre was riptide

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Indie folk/indie pop.

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14
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What does Indie Folk/pop mean?

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Styles of music which combines traditional folk music and traditional instrumentation (acoustic guitars, ukuleles, banjos etc.) with contemporary recording techniques and styles

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15
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To date the music video has in excess of …

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509million views on YouTube

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16
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The editing styles are

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Montage involving many jump cuts
Intellectual montage
The kuleshov effect

17
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Gorun plays the role of the woman who…

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Keeps getting the words wrong in the music video and she is one of the directors

18
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What technical codes are involved in riptide?

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Diegetic lighting and so many close ups

19
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Riptide has no what?

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No narrative

20
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Is riptide surrealist or realist

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Surrealist

21
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Give an example of when riptide could be trying to be more than a music video.

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The establishing shot in the beginning

22
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‘All my friends are turning green’
The green doll or bill comes up. What does this show.

A

The saying “Green with envy” and The idea that Green = wealth.

23
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There is a consistent film connotation in the music video give an example.

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  • Wes Anderson and the binoculars
  • the wicker man - in the women being a magician
24
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What is the editing?

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Montage editing

25
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There are a lot of Notions of looking and this is the thought from

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Laura malvey

26
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Scopophilia comes into this. How? And what is it?

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Women being sexualised and offered to the audience through pleasure.

E.g. women’s bodies being objectified like hands, legs and body.

27
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How did the music Video express genre?

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Mixing things like cowboy films. Mixing images to make it have more disjunction.

The music video links/refers to other media texts, such as films, film directors and actors

28
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What’s the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

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They sync together and link

29
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What movie does the binocular scene link to in the music video?

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Moonrise kingdom by Wes Anderson

30
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Which scenes create an allusion to horror/ thriller genres?

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The women’s hands being dragged and hurt and the woman experiencing different types of domestic violence.

31
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The editing makes the audience…

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Invites the audience to interpret images.

32
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The music video makes … references.

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Intertextual

33
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What affects the budgets of music videos?

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When the popularity of some one rises then their budget rises.

34
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What does budgeting limit?

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Artistic decision

35
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An overt … is used a lot in the music video.

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Graphical representations

36
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How In which future music video is it different from riptide.

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The future music video “Georgia” make use of larger budgets. Special effects and elaborate, coherent narratives.

37
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What do they use which is often used at the start of films?

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Establishing shots.

38
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What does the music video deliberately lack?

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Any narrative.