Riptide Visual Codes

Question 1

Mise-en-scene

Aloe vera, scissors

Answer 1

Represents healing from her trauma

Question 2

Mise-en-scene

Riptide / Sea clips

Answer 2

Escape / possible suicide to escape from the “darkside”
- Keeps running down to the riptide to escape from the cult kidnapping her
- Ultimately kiddnapped once again and spied on

Question 3

Iconography

Horror Genre symbols

Answer 3

• Knife
• Gun = Both knife + gun = symbolises threats and danger she faces throughout the song
• Tarot cards = curses and untold future
• Red nails = blood / femininity / victimisation
• Pulled under the bed
• Tied up to a tree

Question 4

Colour Palette

Blue sky - first clip
Vs
Woman w/ ruined makeup - end clip

Answer 4

First clip :
- Uplifting + Hope
- Represents her happiness and how she’s “like a sun”
- Calmness / Purity and innocence
- Freedom and possiblity

End clip :
- Ends in darkness
- Consumed by the horrors she’s face and how it eveloped her whole life
- Chaos / imperfections and struggle
- Facial expression = traumatised and fearful
- Incorrect lip-syncing + smudged makeup = breakdown of the polished facade earlier

Narrative Arc :
- Progression = arc of transformation and disillusionment
- Underneath the surface of beauty lies vulernability and imperfection
- (Links to Mulvey + Van Zoonen = break down of the male gaze, progressively less attractive as she’s plagued by the expectations and stress of the patriarchy)
- (Colours of Wes Anderson films = bright and oppositional lighting)
- (Wickerman greens and nature where the girl was killed in the movie)

Question 5

Lip-Syncing

“You gone and sang the words wrong”
VS
“You gone and sank the worlds wolf”