Titanium

Question 1

What is the genre of Titanium?

Answer 1

Unconventional narrative

Question 2

What is titaniums main theme?

Answer 2

Resilience

Question 3

Titanium is a ‘text to text’. What theory is this related to?

Answer 3

Postmodernism or hyperreality (Baudrillard)

Question 4

What texts does titanium link go through intertextualtity?

Answer 4

Films like Super 8 and ET

Question 5

What cinematography is used at the beginning of the video? Say what shot

Answer 5

Tracking shot

Question 6

Why is most of the video shot at a low angle or from the boys shoulders?

Answer 6

To connote a child’s view of the world

Question 7

The editing only speeds up on one section.
When is this?

Answer 7

When the boy is on his bike to connote danger

Question 8

How can we tell where it is set?
(American suburbia reminiscent of the 80s)

Answer 8

White picket fences and suburban houses

Question 9

How can we tell the time period of the 80s through the technology?

Answer 9

Cathode ray tube TV and landline handset

Question 10

The video is set in the 80s how can we tell this though costume?

Answer 10

Boy wears anorak and bobble hat. Runners wear sweatbands

Question 11

What lighting is used to make intertextual reference to Spielberg?

Answer 11

Lens flares and bright lighting in the woods

Question 12

What narrative structure is used?

Answer 12

Enigma resolution

Question 13

What is the main viewpoint that Titanium celebrates?

Answer 13

Survival

Question 14

What main text does titanium reference?

Answer 14

Super 8

Question 15

How does the music video reference this text?

Answer 15

Ordinary ‘boy’ hero, adults misunderstanding of the child’s world

Question 16

What does the bike symbolise?

Answer 16

Freedom

Question 17

How is an immersive world constructed?

Answer 17

High production values and narrative construction

Question 18

How is the context of postmodernism constructed?

Answer 18

Use of intertextuality

Question 19

What does the video represent?

Answer 19

Spielburgian America

Question 20

What ethnicity is used?

Answer 20

White except for outsiders in the SWAT team who are black (connoted violent and aggressive)

Question 21

How is class represented?

Answer 21

Tries to be classless but middle class due to area

Question 22

How is gender represented?

Answer 22

Men are powerful-
hero=police
Female teacher=helpless

Question 23

Who has power?

Answer 23

Forces from outside

Question 24

The video represents what in an allegorical form?

Answer 24

The issue of growing up and finding your identity

Question 25

What is the main cultural context?

Answer 25

The culture prestige given to directors in Hollywood

Question 26

How is childhood stereotyped?

Answer 26

As a time of uncertainty in a harsh adult world

Question 27

Is childhood stereotyped sympathetically or unsympathetically

Answer 27

Sympathetically

Question 28

How is school stereotyped?

Answer 28

As a place of constraint

Question 29

How are the forces or law and order stereotyped

Answer 29

Negatively

Question 30

How is cycling demonstrated?

Answer 30

A moment of freedom sail pasts adults

Question 31

Whose pov is the video made from

Answer 31

A child’s POV

Question 32

How is gender stereotyped?

Answer 32

Women have no power, men have power

Question 33

How is race stereotyped?

Answer 33

White as the dominate hegemony. The only black character is an outsider and is aggressive

Question 34

How is the audience positioned?

Answer 34

Identifying with the boy and his attempt to escape frightening forces

Question 35

Who is the video sympathising with?

Answer 35

The underdog- the boy