Riptide, Vance Joy

Question 1

Who is Vance Joy

Answer 1

Austrian singer songwriter

Question 2

Who is Vance Joy signed to?

Answer 2

Atlantic records

Question 3

What genre of music does he make?

Answer 3

Indie folk music

Question 4

How many viewers does it have on YouTube as of 2025

Answer 4

590 million views

Question 5

What type of Music video is Riptide?

Answer 5

Concept video

Question 6

What would you usually find in an Indie-folk music video?

Answer 6

Soft colours
Instruments
Outside in nature
Warm lighting
Muted earthy tones

Question 7

How does the MV break these conventions?

Answer 7

Artist not shown in music video
Not shown playing any instrument
Narrating the song
Pace of editing is not either slow or fast

Question 8

How does the MV meet these conventions?

Answer 8

Using the same music and instruments
Shots cut to the beat
Montage editing, meanings being created through the juxtaposition

Question 9

How are women presented in Riptide?

Answer 9

Objectified and victimised

Question 10

How are women presented as scared?

Answer 10

Through the high camera angles
Terrified facial expressions
Lowkey lighting

Question 11

How do the representations make the audience feel?

Answer 11

Uncomfortable, which encourages us to see the victimisation of women as undesirable

Question 12

What do long takes do for the audience

Answer 12

They are hard to look away and force us to question what and why something is happening

Question 13

What do the short takes do?

Answer 13

Create representations of women that seem scared and jumpy and almost horror like

Question 14

How are women presented as their own hero?

Answer 14

Through representations of women as powerful and independent when they free themselves

Question 15

What do the low angle shots connote

Answer 15

Create a voyeuristic view of women as though they are being watched/stalked

Question 16

What does it mean when the camera cuts to the woman signing and her makeup is deteriorating?

Answer 16

Supposed to shock the audience, create enigma about what has happened and emphasise that women are victims of violence and control

Question 17

What does the clips of the woman’s makeup wiping off do for the audience?

Answer 17

Encourages us to sympathise with her

Question 18

How do we know that she is singing the lyrics wrong?

Answer 18

The on screen lyrics

Question 19

What does the woman’s facial expressions imply

Answer 19

She is panicked, emotional and scared

Question 20

What does the images of weapons show?

Answer 20

Reflects violence against women

Question 21

How are men represnted?

Answer 21

We see them in positions of powerful

Question 22

How does the audience see women

Answer 22

From a male gaze

Question 23

What does montage editing invite?

Answer 23

Interpreation

Question 24

What is Eisenstein’s concept of intellectual montage?

Answer 24

New ideas emerge from collision of images and generate new meanings that might not exist otherwise

Question 25

What does the music video reject?

Answer 25

A clear narrative

Question 26

What is repeated through the music video?

Answer 26

Overt graphical and literal representations of the lyrics

Question 27

What genres does the music video feature

Answer 27

Western and Thriller genres

Question 28

What is polysemy?

Answer 28

The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase

Question 29

What is an example of this?

Answer 29

The pile of dollar bills which accompanies the line "all my friend are turning green"

Question 30

What could the dollar bill mean

Answer 30

Green is associated with envy and greed, potentially his friends are becoming this

Question 31

What is an example of a surrealist film?

Answer 31

Un Chien Andalou

Question 32

What are some of the references to Un Chien Andalou in Riptide?

Answer 32

The infamous eye cutting scene could be compared to the hand stabbing scene

Question 33

What are some of the references in the music video?

Answer 33

Wicker man Midnight cowboy Donnie Darko Dali's moustache

Question 34

What is Voyerustic sadism?

Answer 34

A way for men to cope with this idea for the woman's body to be controlled on screen and made to conform with the social order

Question 35

What is fetishisation of women?

Answer 35

ideal beauty, a fetish, whose flawless perfection turn any attention away from her difference

Question 36

Why is there fetisiation of women?

Answer 36

Represents women as untouchable objects of male adoration, something too precious to be touched

Question 37

Representations of men as simple

Answer 37

Men like motor racing Men holding guns Woman sings the mans words, men have the dominant voice Watching and controlling women

Question 38

Representations of men as complex

Answer 38

"I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations" Men need help from women (reference to the book) Men as not in control

Question 39

How does the music video reinforce a patriarchal world view?

Answer 39

Blonde hair blue eyes Thin body type Shots of men secretly filming the woman

Question 40

Are women sexualised within the music video?

Answer 40

Taking off her swimwear Light on women's body Wearing lots of makeup