Riptide

Question 1

What do music videos demonstrate?

Answer 1

Genre and characteristics.

Question 2

What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

Answer 2

Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.

Question 3

What’s the relationship between music and visuals?

Answer 3

Illustrative, amplifying or contradicting.

Question 4

What’s a motif?

Answer 4

Something which artists (for example) may develop a visual style across their work.

Question 5

Record labels will include the need for lots of _________

Answer 5

Close ups.

Question 6

What is the notion of looking?

Answer 6

Screens within screens, telescopes, etc.

Question 7

What does intertextual references mean?

Answer 7

References to films, tv, programmes, other music videos, etc.

Question 8

What are certain aspects of the Riptide music video?

Answer 8

• links lyrics to music video
• women are sexualised and looked down on
• the woman singing gets more distraught as it goes.
• only involving women.

Question 9

Riptide facts…

Answer 9

• indie folk pop
• it was Vance joy’s first single to be released in USA (originally from Australia)
• platinum selling single
• directed by Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun
• almost 100 million views on YouTube.

Question 10

Who directed Vance joy Riptide?

Answer 10

Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun

Question 11

Which music company produced Riptide?

Answer 11

Atlantic. (Subsidiary of Warner)

Question 12

What was Vance Joys released date?

Answer 12

May 2013 (worldwide)

Question 13

Which genre was riptide

Answer 13

Indie folk/indie pop.

Question 14

What does Indie Folk/pop mean?

Answer 14

Styles of music which combines traditional folk music and traditional instrumentation (acoustic guitars, ukuleles, banjos etc.) with contemporary recording techniques and styles

Question 15

To date the music video has in excess of …

Answer 15

509million views on YouTube

Question 16

The editing styles are

Answer 16

Montage involving many jump cuts
Intellectual montage
The kuleshov effect

Question 17

Gorun plays the role of the woman who…

Answer 17

Keeps getting the words wrong in the music video and she is one of the directors

Question 18

What technical codes are involved in riptide?

Answer 18

Diegetic lighting and so many close ups

Question 19

Riptide has no what?

Answer 19

No narrative

Question 20

Is riptide surrealist or realist

Answer 20

Surrealist

Question 21

Give an example of when riptide could be trying to be more than a music video.

Answer 21

The establishing shot in the beginning

Question 22

‘All my friends are turning green’
The green doll or bill comes up. What does this show.

Answer 22

The saying “Green with envy” and The idea that Green = wealth.

Question 23

There is a consistent film connotation in the music video give an example.

Answer 23

• Wes Anderson and the binoculars
• the wicker man - in the women being a magician

Question 24

What is the editing?

Answer 24

Montage editing

Question 25

There are a lot of Notions of looking and this is the thought from

Answer 25

Laura malvey

Question 26

Scopophilia comes into this. How? And what is it?

Answer 26

Women being sexualised and offered to the audience through pleasure. E.g. women’s bodies being objectified like hands, legs and body.

Question 27

How did the music Video express genre?

Answer 27

Mixing things like cowboy films. Mixing images to make it have more disjunction. The music video links/refers to other media texts, such as films, film directors and actors

Question 28

What’s the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

Answer 28

They sync together and link

Question 29

What movie does the binocular scene link to in the music video?

Answer 29

Moonrise kingdom by Wes Anderson

Question 30

Which scenes create an allusion to horror/ thriller genres?

Answer 30

The women’s hands being dragged and hurt and the woman experiencing different types of domestic violence.

Question 31

The editing makes the audience…

Answer 31

Invites the audience to interpret images.

Question 32

The music video makes … references.

Answer 32

Intertextual

Question 33

What affects the budgets of music videos?

Answer 33

When the popularity of some one rises then their budget rises.

Question 34

What does budgeting limit?

Answer 34

Artistic decision

Question 35

An overt … is used a lot in the music video.

Answer 35

Graphical representations

Question 36

How In which future music video is it different from riptide.

Answer 36

The future music video “Georgia” make use of larger budgets. Special effects and elaborate, coherent narratives.

Question 37

What do they use which is often used at the start of films?

Answer 37

Establishing shots.

Question 38

What does the music video deliberately lack?

Answer 38

Any narrative.

Question 39

Feminist theories in riptide include? (Who and why)

Answer 39

Bell hooks - only involve women who look the same, no diversity in race. Plus men oppressing women. Judith butler - there is a sense of patriarchy, women are believed to be being more oppressed. This could show they are being forced to be more womanly. Lisbet van zanzoonen - There is a consistent reference to the male gaze. Like the bikini scene, to draw attention to her plus she is dehumanised from facing away.