Riptide Flashcards
What do music videos demonstrate?
Genre and characteristics.
What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?
Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.
What’s the relationship between music and visuals?
Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.
What’s a motif?
Something which artists (for example) may develop a visual style across their work.
Record labels will include the need for lots of _________
Close ups.
What is the notion of looking?
Screens within screens, telescopes, etc.
What does intertextual references mean?
References to films, tv, programmes, other music videos, etc.
What are certain aspects of the Riptide music video?
- links lyrics to music video
- women are sexualised and looked down on
- the woman singing gets more distraught as it goes.
- only involving women.
Riptide facts…
- 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.
Who directed Vance joy Riptide?
Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun
Which music company produced Riptide?
Atlantic. (Subsidiary of Warner)
What was Vance Joys released date?
May 2013 (worldwide)
Which genre was riptide
Indie folk/indie pop.
What does Indie Folk/pop mean?
Styles of music which combines traditional folk music and traditional instrumentation (acoustic guitars, ukuleles, banjos etc.) with contemporary recording techniques and styles
To date the music video has in excess of …
509million views on YouTube
The editing styles are
Montage involving many jump cuts
Intellectual montage
The kuleshov effect
Gorun plays the role of the woman who…
Keeps getting the words wrong in the music video and she is one of the directors
What technical codes are involved in riptide?
Diegetic lighting and so many close ups
Riptide has no what?
No narrative
Is riptide surrealist or realist
Surrealist
Give an example of when riptide could be trying to be more than a music video.
The establishing shot in the beginning
‘All my friends are turning green’
The green doll or bill comes up. What does this show.
The saying “Green with envy” and The idea that Green = wealth.
There is a consistent film connotation in the music video give an example.
- Wes Anderson and the binoculars
- the wicker man - in the women being a magician
What is the editing?
Montage editing
There are a lot of Notions of looking and this is the thought from
Laura malvey
Scopophilia comes into this. How? And what is it?
Women being sexualised and offered to the audience through pleasure.
E.g. women’s bodies being objectified like hands, legs and body.
How did the music Video express genre?
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
What’s the relationship between lyrics and visuals?
They sync together and link
What movie does the binocular scene link to in the music video?
Moonrise kingdom by Wes Anderson
Which scenes create an allusion to horror/ thriller genres?
The women’s hands being dragged and hurt and the woman experiencing different types of domestic violence.
The editing makes the audience…
Invites the audience to interpret images.
The music video makes … references.
Intertextual
What affects the budgets of music videos?
When the popularity of some one rises then their budget rises.
What does budgeting limit?
Artistic decision
An overt … is used a lot in the music video.
Graphical representations
How In which future music video is it different from riptide.
The future music video “Georgia” make use of larger budgets. Special effects and elaborate, coherent narratives.
What do they use which is often used at the start of films?
Establishing shots.
What does the music video deliberately lack?
Any narrative.
Feminist theories in riptide include? (Who and why)
Bell hooks - only involve women who look the same, no diversity in race. Plus men oppressing women.
Judith butler - there is a sense of patriarchy, women are believed to be being more oppressed. This could show they are being forced to be more womanly.
Lisbet van zanzoonen -
There is a consistent reference to the male gaze. Like the bikini scene, to draw attention to her plus she is dehumanised from facing away.
