riptide representation

Question 1

Who made it

Answer 1

Vance Joy

Question 2

What type of genre is it and is the music video conventional for the music genre

Answer 2

It is folk genre but the music video is unconventional for this sub-genre as it is an intellectual montage - Gauntlett’s pick and mix theory and it has a horror feel

Question 3

Representations of women as victimised

Answer 3

Women being dragged under beds, gums being held, knife stabbing female hand, woman being tied up to tree, female singer gradually becoming bruised and beaten, woman being spied on in the bushes, woman being tortured in a dentist chair - violence towards women. Arguably women does escape from tree being own hero, subverting Zoonen

Question 4

Representations of women as sexualised

Answer 4

Woman undressing at the beach, woman singing is all glamoured up seen as powerful but also has a sexual feel, shots of women feet, book entitled ‘techniques for photographing girls’, men spying on woman on the beach - they are voyeurs staring at woman through male gaze. Reinforces Zoonen

Question 5

Camera angles and lighting

Answer 5

Low camera angle from bushes = spying on woman from down below balcony, dim lighting when women are being dragged under beds, high angle shots (woman in dentist chair) = fearful and vulnerable, woman singing - long shots = uncomfortable and enigma

Question 6

Why presented in this way

Answer 6

Joy’s audience = heterosexual men wanting to see woman sexualised and victimised - appealing
but can raise awareness of violence towards women