Section B - Music Videos (Unfinished Sympathy & Burn The Witch)

Question 1

Sven Carlson’s 3 music video conventions

Answer 1

Performance - artist performing (usually seen lip-syncing)
Narrative - narrative throughout music video
Abstract - unusual visuals

Question 2

How Radiohead’s ‘Burn the Witch’ aesthetic goes against conventions

Music Videos

Answer 2

Stop motion animation - artist not present

Want to promote ideology > themselves

Question 3

How animation style of ‘Burn the Witch’ creates meaning

Music Videos

Answer 3

‘Camberwick Green’ - 60s kids show. V.popular, recognisable

Traditional English society, traditional English values (traditional Windmill, British army redcoats)

Intertextuality - post-modernism

Question 4

How narrative of ‘Burn the Witch’ creates meaning

Music Videos

Answer 4

Inspector -> traditional English village, criticises their way of life, and is burnt in a wickerman

Mirrors plot of ‘The Wicker Man’ (Hardy, 73) - police inspector -> isolated Scottish island, gets burnt in Wickerman

Question 5

MISE-EN-SCENE
Signs and signifiers in ‘Burn the Witch’

Music Videos

Answer 5

Wickerman - traditionally burnt animals/people in Wickerman a sacrifice, ashes -> food grow

Painting red crosses in doors = during Plague, mark out infected houses

Girl tied up in stake - harvest festival, ritual sacrifice -> food grows

Maypole = gallows - public executions until 50s

Question 6

EDITING
How editing of ‘Burn the Witch’ goes against conventions

Music Videos

Answer 6

Radiohead = alternative music, against mainstream

No rhythmic/montage editing - goes against conventions

Question 7

CONTEXTS
‘Blame the Witch’ - Radiohead

Music Videos

Answer 7

Video made in 2016
Immigration crisis, Brexit vote, blamed outsiders for our problems

Video criticises Brexit vote