Thursday, 18 October 2018

Music Video Analysis



Theoretical framework

Theoretical framework
Learners will develop their understanding of the media through the consistent application of the four areas of the theoretical framework:
Lmedia language: how the media through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicate meanings
Imedia industries: how the media industries’ processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms
Amedia audiences: how media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them and how members of audiences become producers themselves.
Rmedia representations how the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups

Designated videos
Emily Sande – Heaven
feature their respective artist(s) and are a mixture of performance and narrative, and raise a number of similar representational issues surrounding ‘street life’.
Emily Sande – Heaven
Radiohead - Burn The Witch
does not feature the artist(s) but celebrates the power of narrative and signification and a postmodern emphasis on intertextuality. The video contrasts clearly with the representations featured in Heaven
Radiohead - Burn The Witch




OCR Spec:
Learners should investigate how the elements of the theoretical framework for media language are used to construct representations that appeal to particular audiences, including a consideration of the influence of historical, social and cultural contexts. Consideration should be made of media language elements specific to music videos such as camera shots, angles, lighting, settings, locations, costumes, props, makeup, editing and sound as appropriate