Riptide, Vance Joy Flashcards
India-folk music videos
Folk music
Acoustic guitar
Country music
Soft colours
Outside
Instruments
Casual
Fairy lights
Warm lighting
Muted earthy tones
Riptide meeting conventions
Same music and instruments
Shots cut to beat
Montage editing
Meanings created through juxtaposition
Riptide breaks conventions
Artist not shown
No instruments are shown
Narrating the song
Concept video
Pace of editing is neither slow or fast
Concept music video
Abstract
No coherent narrative
Interpret song lyrics in an enigmatic way
Experiment with filming
Eisenstein and editing
Soviet Russian montage editing was developed in the 1920s
Shots were not like bricks that should be put together to build a sequence but that “maximum effect” would still be gained
Juxtaposition to force the audience to make connection
Create an idea which is clearer when all the images are viewed together than when they are viewed separate
Male gaze
Second wave feminism
Camera and the viewer are put into the perspective of a heterosexual man
Objectification and sexualisation of women
Voyeuristic sadism
Idea for the women’s body to be controlled on screen and made to conform with the social order
Fetishizing women
Ideal beauty
Flawless perfection turns away attention from her otherness
May wears lots of jewellery as a distraction
Untouchable objects of male adoration
Too precious to be touched/having special powers
Forget their castration fear
Psycho Analyst Sigmund Freud
Voyeuristic gazing/lookingat awoman’s body is unsettling for a man because the femalebody is “castrated” (has no penis and testicles)
Looking at’ women makes menfearcastration, makes themimagine having their genitals cut off
Unconscious
Most films are still directed by men, filmed by men and have male protagonists, the viewer is invited to see the women on screen through a male perspective
Theorists to link
David Guantlett
Roland Barthes
