Riptide Flashcards
Who is Vance Joy signed to?
Atlantic Records
Who is Atlantic Records a subsidiary of?
Major label, Warner
What genre is joy’s music?
indie folk-pop
What was Joy’s first single to be released in the USA?
Riptide
Who was the video directed by?
Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun
What could be the meaning of the low-budget style?
The low budget could be both an artistic decision or an economic one.
What is evidence that the low-budget style could have been due to economic restrictions?
Later videos from joy, such as Georgia, make use of larger budgets, special effects and elaborate, coherent narratives
What type of editing does Riptide make use of?
Montage editing
How is montage editing used?
it is used in an overt way - a wide range of contrasting shots are juxtaposed (often through hard jump cuts) to convey a large amount of information
What is Eisenstein’s concept of “intellectual montage”?
Where new ideas emerge from the collision of images and generate new meanings that might not otherwise exist
What could be an example of Eisenstein’s “intellectual montage” in the video?
Where the shot of a male and a female suddenly turning their heads to look at something off-screen cuts to the seemingly unrelated pile of dollar bills
True or False?
The music video follows a clearly defined narrative.
False, the music video rejects a clearly defined narrative.
