Titanium Flashcards
What is the genre of Titanium?
Unconventional narrative
What is titaniums main theme?
Resilience
Titanium is a ‘text to text’. What theory is this related to?
Postmodernism or hyperreality (Baudrillard)
What texts does titanium link go through intertextualtity?
Films like Super 8 and ET
What cinematography is used at the beginning of the video? Say what shot
Tracking shot
Why is most of the video shot at a low angle or from the boys shoulders?
To connote a child’s view of the world
The editing only speeds up on one section.
When is this?
When the boy is on his bike to connote danger
How can we tell where it is set?
(American suburbia reminiscent of the 80s)
White picket fences and suburban houses
How can we tell the time period of the 80s through the technology?
Cathode ray tube TV and landline handset
The video is set in the 80s how can we tell this though costume?
Boy wears anorak and bobble hat. Runners wear sweatbands
What lighting is used to make intertextual reference to Spielberg?
Lens flares and bright lighting in the woods
What narrative structure is used?
Enigma resolution
What is the main viewpoint that Titanium celebrates?
Survival
What main text does titanium reference?
Super 8
How does the music video reference this text?
Ordinary ‘boy’ hero, adults misunderstanding of the child’s world
What does the bike symbolise?
Freedom
How is an immersive world constructed?
High production values and narrative construction
How is the context of postmodernism constructed?
Use of intertextuality
What does the video represent?
Spielburgian America
What ethnicity is used?
White except for outsiders in the SWAT team who are black (connoted violent and aggressive)
How is class represented?
Tries to be classless but middle class due to area
How is gender represented?
Men are powerful-
hero=police
Female teacher=helpless
Who has power?
Forces from outside
The video represents what in an allegorical form?
The issue of growing up and finding your identity
What is the main cultural context?
The culture prestige given to directors in Hollywood
How is childhood stereotyped?
As a time of uncertainty in a harsh adult world
Is childhood stereotyped sympathetically or unsympathetically
Sympathetically
How is school stereotyped?
As a place of constraint
How are the forces or law and order stereotyped
Negatively
How is cycling demonstrated?
A moment of freedom sail pasts adults
Whose pov is the video made from
A child’s POV
How is gender stereotyped?
Women have no power, men have power
How is race stereotyped?
White as the dominate hegemony. The only black character is an outsider and is aggressive
How is the audience positioned?
Identifying with the boy and his attempt to escape frightening forces
Who is the video sympathising with?
The underdog- the boy
