Music Videos Flashcards
What is transcendence?
Existence or experiences beyond our noral physical world
Emily sander is offering escape from urban life struggles by singing to the sky is soft focus : ethereal focus:
Enigmatic code ?
Lures a viewer into a mistery or hook
Titanium lures into a chaotic narrative, the viewer has questions about the boy and his narrative
Action code ?
Foreshadowing that something bad might happen
Foreshadowing : home alone clothes , teacher on the phone , police arriving , telekinesis
Semantic codes
Hidden meaning. A symbol that signifies something
Heaven is full of symbolism - religion , the colour red on her dress , light vs dark , the wings , the sky
Spielbergian tropes ?
When the author or director uses tropes from Spielberg movies in their text
The ordinary boy hero titanium (ET boy) ect
Intertextuality
When one text references another
Heaven : filmed using super 8 camera techniques
Titanium: ET , home alone , super 8 movie