Riptide Media language

Question 1

conventions of music videos

Answer 1

•postmodern or experimental style
•narrative or performance
•female sexualisation and objectification

Question 2

Enigma codes

Answer 2

•what happens to the women?
- women being dragged into darkness
-women singer dischevled
-woman dissapearing in graveyard

•mv is a montage of enigma codes

Question 3

Define surrealist cinema

Answer 3

shocking, absurd imagery and freudian dream symbolism to challenge the traditional function of art to represent reality
-underlying violence

Question 4

how is riptide influenced by surrealist cinema

Answer 4

•does not follow a logical storyline
•underlying violence
•shocking/uncomfortable feeling - part of life and relationships

Question 5

how is riptide postmodern

Answer 5

•references michelle pfeiffer
-plays catwoman, an insane character
•horror and western films found footage
•brickalage
•self reflexivity - found footage, representations

Question 6

conform neales genre theory

Answer 6

•repitition
-conventions in montage edit
-postmodern intertextuality
•combined with
-invisible artist
-not a narrative or performance