Music Stuff

The study of music videos covers the influence of social/culture contexts and 2 areas of the theoretical framework media language and representation plus the following 2 specific topics from media audiences.

• the ways in which audiences may interpret the same media products very differently and how these differences may reflect both social and individual differences.
• The ways in which people's media practices are connected to their identity including their sense of actual and desired self.

wheatus- narrative

Avril Lavigne- performance and narrative\

media language- 

camerawork- distinctive shots/camera movement handheld v controlled monochrome v colour

editing- editing pace effects distinctive juxtaposition 

mise-en-scene- use of setting/location lighting costume performance  

soundtrack- use of diegetic sound or silence

narrative- montage or linear narrative, proppian heroes and villains