Riptide representation Flashcards
What are examples of shots where women are victimised?
Shot of woman tied to tree
Shot of woman being dragged under a bed
Shot of woman tortured in a dentist chair
What is the significance on the high camera angel shots of women?
Adds to the idea that women are inferior and fearful.
These is a stereotypical representation.
What do the shots of the women being victimised do to the audience?
Often make audiences feel uncomfortable to infer that this treatment is undesirable.
What does the long take of the woman singing do to the audience?
Makes viewers feel uncomfortable and aware that this is wrong and forceful.
Why are the sections of women being tortured are victimised often fast paced?
Fast paced editing creates representations of women that seem scared and jumpy - almost horror like.
This would be an intertextual reference to horror films.
What shots may imply women are also ‘heroes’ in the narrative?
The woman tied to the tree is able to untie herself.
Powerful and independent representation.
What does the shot of the woman’s feet running imply about women?
Implies they are literally being objectified as we do not see her face/ her whole body in the shot.
What does the shot of the woman undressing imply about women?
This essentially objectifies women, making them seem like objects possibly for the gratification of men (Male gaze).
What shot follows the shot of the woman undressing and what does this imply?
There is a close up shot of a book named ‘Technique of photographing girls’.
This is an example of the kuleshov effects the audience can derive meaning from the prior shot - it is clear that the woman is being watched and photographed.
What does the long angel shot from behind the bush, looking at the woman, create?
This creates a voyeuristic view of women, as if she is being watched.
We arguably infer that this is a man.
‘She’s been living on the highest shelf’ - idea that women are objectified.
Possibly, this is commentary for how women are watched in society.
What does the glamourized makeup of the woman highlight?
This highlights women’s sexual image and the stereotypical representations of beauty in society.
What do the bruises and the ruined makeup of the woman emphasise and what lyrics anchor this?
This places emphasis on the idea that women are not in control of their image.
Alongside this, the lyrics are deliberately wrong on the screen - this shows her emotional chaos which heightens her lack of control.
What theory links to the repeated shot of the woman with bruises?
Barthes’ enigma codes - we are made to question who is doing this to her which encourages reflection.
What does the intellectual montaging add to the narrative?
It means there is arguably more than one representation thus leaving the meaning of the video up to audience interpretation.
What are examples of violence towards women in the video and what does this do?
Hand stabbed by knife/ gun pointed at woman/ bruises on face/ tied to tree.
This may encourage us to reflect on social issues rather than to be entertained.
What does the focus of violence towards women suggest about women in society?
This suggests specifically women are ostracised from society.
What does the wide shot of the men with a camera on the beach suggest about men and women?
This implies how men are in positions of power in comparison to women.
Women are looked at through the lens of men in the media.
According to context, why may have Vance Joy made the video deliberately controversial?
Riptide was Vance Joy’s first single to be released in the USA.
It could be inferred that this was a bid to gain publicity from an American audience seeing as Vance is Australian.
How can the idea of funding be applied to Vance Joy’s video?
As a newly emerging artist, Vance Joy would have had a low budget to make the video.
This is seen as there is no use of special effects or an elaborate, coherent narratives.
Budget arguably impacts artistic decisions and the visual style of music videos.
What intertextual references are there in the video?
Wes Anderson style symmetry and framing.
Iconography of the horror genre.
Mention of Michelle Pfeiffer.
David Lynch style surrealism.
What do the intertextual references to the horror genre possibly imply?
References to film may attempt to offer an implied artistic value that transcends the music video form.
How can Steve Neale’s genre theory be applied to the video?
It contains elements of the indie, folk genre such as artistic value and acoustic musical arrangements.
But, the intertextual references to the horror genre adds variation to the typical genre expectations.
How can Gauntlett’s theory of identity be applied to the video?
The use of intellectual montaging, where there is a variety of representations of gender, ties in with his pick and mix theory where audiences can choose their identities.
How can bell hooks feminist theory be applied to the video?
hooks claims that feminism is the struggle to end patriarchal oppression.
The seemingly contradictory messages about gender seem to call this into question - is the video objectifying women or feeding into the oppression.
hooks also claims that there are levels to discrimination - ethnic women are discriminated further.
This is not presented in the video as it only follows the narrative of a white woman - possibly hooks would imply there is a lack of diversity.
