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Riptide- Vance Joy Flashcards

1
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What country is Vance Joy from?

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Australia

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Which record company is he signed too?

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Atlantic records (a subsidiary of major label, Warner).

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What genre is Vance’s music?

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indie folk-pop.

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what was Vance’s first single to be released in the USA, and what did it follow?

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Riptide, which followed debut EP “God loves you when you’re dancing”

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what did his first single in the USA become?

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a platinum selling single.

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who directed the music video?

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Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun

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How many views on YouTube has it had?

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nearly 100 million

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What is the argument about the low budget?

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low budget, so unique style of music video, was it artistic decision OR economic?

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What do his later music videos use?

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larger budgets, special effects and elaborate, coherent narratives. (e.g. “Georgia”)

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10
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How does the budget of a band start out?

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small low budget productions, increase in scope and budget from popularity and fans.

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What does budget impact?

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artistic decisions and visual style of music videos.

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What (arguably) is a music video?

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An advert for band, OR representation of how “valuable” band are to producers.

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What (arguably) are mainstream audiences impressed and attracted to?

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Large budget music videos and implied “quality” of that band.

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What editing method is used in an “overt” way?

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Montage editing

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How is a large amount to information conveyed?

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Wide range of contrasting shots juxtaposed (mostly through hard jump cuts) to coney info.

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How is audience’s interpretation encouraged?

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editing together of seemingly disparate images.

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What is Einstein’s concept?

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“Intellectual montage”- new ideas emerge from collision of images, generating new meanings that might not otherwise exist.

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What is an example of intellectual montage?

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Male and female suddenly turn heads to look at off-screen, next shot: unrelated pile of $ bills (connections audience make?)

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What do many of the hard jump cuts link to?

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The lyrics.

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20
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What does most of the video reject?

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Clearly defined narrative.

21
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What is a rare examples in the video of a short coherent narrative?

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The girl going missing in the graveyard.

22
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What type of cinema does the video reference?

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Surrealist or avant-garde

23
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What is an example of avant-garde?

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The work of Luis Buñuel.

24
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How do the lyrics subvert conventions of music videos?

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Overt and deliberate way they are interpreted on screen. (having images exactly reflect lyrics)

25
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What is an example of lyrical interpretation on the screen?

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“I was scared of dentists and the dark”: cared female in the dentists followed by shot of light swinging in dark room.

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What does the video explicitly reference?

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Feature films.

27
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Give an example of the video referencing feature films?

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opening shot: cinematic credits, info, title at bottom, similar to “billing block” or “credit block”, often seen in film trailers.

28
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What decision does the audience have to make about the style?

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Short Film OR Music Video.

29
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What are all the film genres the video references?

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Western, thriller, hipster style of Wes Anderson, Horror iconography.

30
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what are some examples of Horror iconography?

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Females being dragged off screen by unseen forces and character going missing in graveyard.

31
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What might the video be designed to do for the band?

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Confer a sense of uniqueness or intrigue.

32
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What Theory can be applied to signification of lyrical interpretation on screen?

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Barthes Semiotics- signifier/ signified (e.g. dollar bills “all my friends are turning green.”)

33
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How is Barthes’ “status of myth” achieved?

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constructed meanings become self-evident through process of naturalisation (allows for complicated readings of images) e.g. colour green relates to money & envy.

34
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What is an example of “polysemy” (Barthes- semiotics)?

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“turning green” has multiple meanings: money and envy

35
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What could be implied by the use of polysemy (“turning green”)?

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friends (other bands) give into money, friends “turning green” due to envy at Vance Joy.

36
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What is Neale’s theory about genre?

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Genres may be dominated by repetition, also marked by difference, variation and change.

37
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How is indie folk music genre dominated by repetition?

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low-fi videos with bands playing instruments. Riptide offers variation.

38
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Which inter-text (referenced) explores violence and sexual desire?

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Un Chien Andalou (1929)- famous eye cutting scene- hand stabbing in riptide.

39
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What is the argument about the representation of women?

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reinforces patriarchal world view OR subverting objectification of women in media.

40
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What is an example of how women are presented as objects to be watched?

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woman undressing out of swimming costume with her back to camera.

41
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What are sexualised images of women?

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disembodied, isolated sections of women’s bodies (bare feet running away, feminine hands being dragged away).

42
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What is the argument for the images of women in the video?

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sexualised, offers for audience pleasure (scopophilia) OR challenges sexualisation of women.

43
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How does the lip-syncing scene at first conform to social norms of beauty and glamour?

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at first immaculate make-up, framed and lit in flattering way.

44
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How does the increasingly dishevelled presentation of the woman challenge representation?

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Woman not presented as being perfect as she sings “the words wrong”, smudged make-up.

45
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What are examples of trivialising or normalising violence?

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female hand being stabbed, gun pointed off screen, lip-synching clutching neck with blood.

46
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What is Gauntlet’s theory?

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Identity- diverse representations in video.

47
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How is Gauntlet’s concept of “pick & mix” relevant?

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video constructs range of stimuli for audience to interpret. rejects signal messages (invites variety of responses)

48
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How can Hooks’ Feminist theory be applied?

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contradictory messages about gender. objectifying ironically knowing way OR feeding into oppression in patriarchal society.

49
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What is Hooks’ feminist theory?

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Feminism is a struggle to end sexist/ patriarchal oppression- video part of struggle or oppression?

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