Music Video revision

When analysing the videos:

• DRCAGES- Back up with language- Camera, editing and sound
• 4 Main points and use correct names for shots, transitions, etc.
• Polysemic- Lots of different ways of reading something

Music Video Question

In CBR the main social aspects of the video are sexuality, gangs, violence and mental health. These key aspects are being represented by the various people that are highlighted within the music video. CBR is the light that helps people to rise up from this negative and social community and just enjoy life, rather than being afraid. She is comforting and is like a saviour which links to religious terms of Jesus being a saviour and helping people learn how to live properly and rise up from an oppressed society.

Everyone in the video is highlighted in their most stereotypical form in which CBR seems to be very opinionated about each individual person through the facial expressions in various shots. The same as in Titanium, the boy is being pressured by society because of his supernatural powers that have cursed him. He is very innocent and doesn’t want to hurt anyone, bust society is jumping to conclusions and are trying to force him out and isolate him. In both CBR and Titanium they both mainly focus on being oppressed by negative societies and how people need to rise up and stand for what they believe in and enjoy life.

In CBR, the whole video is set within a rundown estate/community in which the cultural aspects of the area represent the negative and oppressed opinions that are shared throughout. The representation of CBR in her music video Stop Where You Are associates her with the idea of transcending prejudice and inequality. In the video CBR is seen to transcend prejudice. This is achieved by placing her in an urban environment encountering young characters who are stereotypically on the edge of society. We see her interact with these characters at different points in the video. All of these actions show a balance in society when the chorus kicks in and the scenes become happier in the uplifting chorus.

However, in Titanium the boy is constantly under pressure and there is no uplifting moment for the boy. This is mainly due to the fact that society has pressured him and made him isolated and alone. This idea is represented by the DJ in various shots in which the world and certain places make the boy look small and insignificant. Such as the forest is an extreme long shot in which the boy looks really tiny, to show him becoming isolated and pushed out into the world by social impacts. It’s also shown when the boy runs into his empty house and the fact, he looks so much smaller than the house. This can show how out of place he has become and also the idea that he is not ready to live alone.

Stop Where You Are Screen Grab

Titanium screen grabs

Titanium Analysis

• Titanium was created by French DJ David Guetta
• Vocals are done by Sia
• No appearance is made by either artist
• Was pulled off American radio stations due to the gun related lyrics
• A song on inner strength and standing up for what is right
• Follows a young boy who also appeared in another film called Super Eight
• Was filmed outdoors and in Canada

GILE- Genre, Instruments, Lyrics, Emotion

• Uses a lot of electric guitar and drums. Every time the main chorus kicks in, he begins to panic again and the tension in the scene rises.
• His emotions also get higher at the chorus, in the verses he feels more relaxed and calm.

Levelled shot 

Close up

Tracking out

Side angle 

Over the shoulder

DISTINCT

Setting- The school is all derelict and destroyed cause he used his powers. His home was all messy and could show that he has been abandoned. The visuals show time passing by the sun going down.

The woods are muddy and covered in leaves showing it could be autumn.

FAM:

• The close up on his face shows him looking scared and confused looking at the destroyed school. Shows the fear and panic in his face
• The close up on the curtain with the gun slowly moving behind. Showing the tension is rising in that scene and also is shown by the fear and panic in his face.
• There is a long shot from a side angle with the sun shining through the grey in the background. As he steps up from the shadows of the bushes he straightens up his body showing confidence and relaxation by his body character.
• There is a over the shoulder shot when the boy throws away his bears to make room in his bag. This shows that the boy is throwing away his childhood and learning to become an adult.
• The last scene of the song the boy goes back to curled up in a ball on the floor which is a repeat of the first scene, showing how he is scared and worried.  

Stop Where You Are analysis

Corinne Bailey Rae

The song was released April 2016 as a single from the album 'The Heart Speaks in Whispers'.
She was a breakthrough artist in 2006.
She channelled her emotion into her music, and much of her work has been influenced by her experiences.

CBR said that "Stop Where You Are" is about being present, stopping and celebrating what's happening right at this very moment.

Uses a very uplifting message of rising from the darkness into light. Shown through loads of light beams shinning down.

Variety of racial minorities used in the video.

Class is shown through the various people in the video and how they are represented in stereotypes.
To make her stand out CBR is wearing a red dress, the red can be linked to love and power but also violence, very contrasting messages.

All the people are shown in a bad way and negative situations, until the song gets more uplifting and then it shows more positive things.

Androgynous- unsure if someone is masculine or female.

When the boy looks like he is considering to jump you get a low angled long shot from the view of the floor and then it flips to a high angled long shot from above and the ground below.

The homeless women is brought into focus when the business man is sat talking with her. Showing a equal level in social class.

Analysing This is America

FAM- Frame, Angle, Movement

Close up low angle
Tracking in and out shot
Over the shoulder
Panning up and down
Extreme long shot

Music videos are to promote artist, their music and their fanbase.

1. Relating to black stereotypes for example black people shooting people and gang warfare. Also relating to white supremacy in America.
2. Very destructive and causing loads of problems within the community, narrator.
3. He is showing that he can stand up against the white supremacy and fight for his human rights.