Turntables

Question 2

PRODUCT CONTEXT

Answer 2

• Turntables is a protest song that was initially
  written to appear in the 2020 Amazon
  documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy,
  which focuses on the issue of voter suppression
  and the fight for democracy. The film’s subject
  is the 2018 elections for the Governor of
  Georgia. It drew attention to the tactics used to
  suppress voting rights to ensure the election of
  the Republican candidate Brian Kemp at the
  expense of Stacey Abrams, the black Democrat
  candidate. In the documentary, the tactics used
  to suppress the voting right of minorities were
  exposed. During the run up to the election, 1.4
  million under-represented minorities disappeared
  from the electoral roll and 300,000 Georgians
  were incorrectly deemed ineligible to vote.
• The music video was inspired by this erosion
  of democracy and goes further, highlighting
  Monáe’s concerns about other social inequalities
  in America and globally, thus demonstrating
  the power of the music video form to raise
  awareness of social issues:

Question 3

opening

Answer 3

archive audio clip ‘i cant be a pessimist’ - james badwin 1968, issue is long term

Question 4

costume of JM

Answer 4

old fashioned 1940, american milairty style, army overcoat, libking singer to american milairty patriotism, issue is ongoing

overcoat, suitacse power, domiabnce importance

Question 5

young black girl

Answer 5

VR headstead, futureistsic, blue colour apllet, furtute? watching JM as if this is a past event,

racism and protesting is of the past
she can only see protesting through VR, they have abloished racism

positive future

binary opposition of past and future, we need change

Question 6

old archive balck and white footage, monatge

Answer 6

protests marches, realism, real events, 40s 50s 60s

Question 7

american flag iconography

Answer 7

anchors the message that this video is about USA, nationalism and issues with the country, mesaage to america

Question 8

black and white archive footage intercut with balck family having breakfast togther

Answer 8

cross cutting back and forth, contrast of black struggles, riots vs positive community and tight knit community of the furture

message of hope to JMs audinec

Question 9

i keep my hands dirty, mind clean

Answer 9

lyrics suggest that the singer is wc down to earth she is part of the protesting, active partipant in chnage

Question 10

birds eye biew shot of BLM marches

Answer 10

shows sheer size of people affected by racsism in USA

Question 11

images of police in riot gear

Answer 11

reflective of rise of BLM movment, familr to audiences from news, not just inequality in political but social jusicte system, police brutaility eg george floyd

Question 12

monatges of iconic fist in air

Answer 12

symbol of balck power, connoting solidiarity pride and equality

Question 13

shots of JM punching along with imagery of boxing, violence and conflict

Answer 13

help to reinforce the message that we need to fight for equality and justice ethnicity

Question 14

america you a lie

Answer 14

statues toppling over
enate integral problems within america srtucte

Question 15

the table bout to turn - chorus

Answer 15

canted angle, suggesting things are about to turn choas disruption

Question 16

archive images of stacey abrahams

Answer 16

real issue pro democrat political ideology

Question 17

long shot of dragging staue out of the sea

Answer 17

illistrates menatal physical emotional strain and stuggle of racsism
close up of man shouting