Ehsans Media Blog2 (Course work)

1) Type up your teacher's feedback in full. great camerawork + focus. Excellent to see so many closups  Music is stranger things (or perhaps blade runner 2049) I think too recent to use it, hard to think of anything else except S.T. once hear it. One to be considered for the real thing  Performances perhaps a little shaky at the start but gets better  Brilliant use of enigma: not showing the audience the villain works so well. Simple but a classic horror convention The second scene arguably better... great use of effects and editing. eyes are so creepy: very well done! almost works like a trailer already  audio levels not quite right  2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and your teacher feedback, write  three  WWW bullet points (What Went Well) and  three  EBI bullet points (Even Better If...) for your film. WWW: Editing was good the camerawork was also effective enigma codes were effective and created mystery  EBI The p

1) How does the  This Is America  video meet the key conventions of a music video? This is America contains intertextuality, performance, genre characteristics (urban setting) close-ups of the artist (most likely a requirement of the record label.) 2) What comment is the video making on American culture, racism and gun violence? The music video is portraying America (particularly black america) as a state where the truth is being covered by pop culture, the music video also addresses the treatment of guns in America, showing that they are treated better than people (guns being carefully carried away while people are being dragged off). 3) Write an analysis of the video applying the theories we have learned: Gilroy, Hall, Rose and Dyson.  When talking about the representations present in the music video, the most prominent representation is that of black people, the music video provides a very stereotypical view of a black person role in society where they are seen as the

1) What was the budget for  Billie Jean ? How did this compare with later Michael Jackson videos? The budget for Billie jean was $50,000, this is minuscule in comparison to his other music videos that released after; Beat it had a budget of $300,000 and Thriller was budgeted at $2 million 2) Why was the video rejected by MTV? MTV believed that the music video did not suit their audience demographic and did not suit what they had previously published in the past. 3) Applying Goodwin's theory of music video, how does  Billie Jean  reflect the genre characteristics of pop music video? There are a few notions of looking within the music video, one when a picture is taken of MJ as the "detective" is trying to catch MJ and the part where the women on the billboard are looking at MJ  Another characteristic would be the studio demands of having MJ dance and perform, his dancing was a signature trait of MJ during that period. 4) How do the visuals reflect the lyrics