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Riptide, Vance Joy Flashcards

1
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Who is Vance Joy

A

Austrian singer songwriter

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2
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Who is Vance Joy signed to?

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Atlantic records

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3
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What genre of music does he make?

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Indie folk music

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How many viewers does it have on YouTube as of 2025

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590 million views

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5
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What type of Music video is Riptide?

A

Concept video

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What would you usually find in an Indie-folk music video?

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Soft colours
Instruments
Outside in nature
Warm lighting
Muted earthy tones

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How does the MV break these conventions?

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Artist not shown in music video
Not shown playing any instrument
Narrating the song
Pace of editing is not either slow or fast

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How does the MV meet these conventions?

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Using the same music and instruments
Shots cut to the beat
Montage editing, meanings being created through the juxtaposition

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How are women presented in Riptide?

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Objectified and victimised

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How are women presented as scared?

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Through the high camera angles
Terrified facial expressions
Lowkey lighting

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How do the representations make the audience feel?

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Uncomfortable, which encourages us to see the victimisation of women as undesirable

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What do long takes do for the audience

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They are hard to look away and force us to question what and why something is happening

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What do the short takes do?

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Create representations of women that seem scared and jumpy and almost horror like

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How are women presented as their own hero?

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Through representations of women as powerful and independent when they free themselves

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What do the low angle shots connote

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Create a voyeuristic view of women as though they are being watched/stalked

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What does it mean when the camera cuts to the woman signing and her makeup is deteriorating?

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Supposed to shock the audience, create enigma about what has happened and emphasise that women are victims of violence and control

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17
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What does the clips of the woman’s makeup wiping off do for the audience?

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Encourages us to sympathise with her

18
Q

How do we know that she is singing the lyrics wrong?

A

The on screen lyrics

19
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What does the woman’s facial expressions imply

A

She is panicked, emotional and scared

20
Q

What does the images of weapons show?

A

Reflects violence against women

21
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How are men represnted?

A

We see them in positions of powerful

22
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How does the audience see women

A

From a male gaze

23
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What does montage editing invite?

A

Interpreation

24
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What is Eisenstein’s concept of intellectual montage?

A

New ideas emerge from collision of images and generate new meanings that might not exist otherwise

25
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What does the music video reject?

A

A clear narrative

26
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What is repeated through the music video?

A

Overt graphical and literal representations of the lyrics

27
Q

What genres does the music video feature

A

Western and Thriller genres

28
Q

What is polysemy?

A

The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase

29
Q

What is an example of this?

A

The pile of dollar bills which accompanies the line “all my friend are turning green”

30
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What could the dollar bill mean

A

Green is associated with envy and greed, potentially his friends are becoming this

31
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What is an example of a surrealist film?

A

Un Chien Andalou

32
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What are some of the references to Un Chien Andalou in Riptide?

A

The infamous eye cutting scene could be compared to the hand stabbing scene

33
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What are some of the references in the music video?

A

Wicker man
Midnight cowboy
Donnie Darko
Dali’s moustache

34
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What is Voyerustic sadism?

A

A way for men to cope with this idea for the woman’s body to be controlled on screen and made to conform with the social order

35
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What is fetishisation of women?

A

ideal beauty, a fetish, whose flawless perfection turn any attention away from her difference

36
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Why is there fetisiation of women?

A

Represents women as untouchable objects of male adoration, something too precious to be touched

37
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Representations of men as simple

A

Men like motor racing
Men holding guns
Woman sings the mans words, men have the dominant voice
Watching and controlling women

38
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Representations of men as complex

A

“I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations”
Men need help from women (reference to the book)
Men as not in control

39
Q

How does the music video reinforce a patriarchal world view?

A

Blonde hair blue eyes
Thin body type
Shots of men secretly filming the woman

40
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Are women sexualised within the music video?

A

Taking off her swimwear
Light on women’s body
Wearing lots of makeup

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