Music Video Research Task

Lily Allen - Hard out here shows the typical women in music videos, it is highly provocative and shows how women are portreyed in videos at its peak. In the video it starts with Lily Allen having treatment (Lyposuction) the video moves to a stage where Women are moving in ways you would find in Pornography, the women during the video lick there hands and perform sedictive motions that include them stroking breasts and rubbing the vaginal area.

My second video shows Women being treated in a way where they are not treated and looked at sexualy and have class. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the heart shows a women with clothes on throughout the video.Bonnie Tyler is looked upon in the video by topless men as an object of desire but is more classy and have a more appropriate look for the viewers.



Another Negative video?

Grading

 

1/12

 

D3

 

You have a number points here but none of them have examples. If you don't really have any specific examples to back up your points made, you can't get higher than a low D.

 

 

T: Find specific, detailed examples from the Music Videos to back up your points. Also pick another video to show the negative side.

In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy"

In the Phrase
In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy
it represents a typical women in most music videos to the present day.
A lot the time the women in these videos are treated as sex slaves by the artist, In videos like Candy shop you see a number of women dressed in Thongs and Bra's trying to get with the artist in a provocative manor. The women in videos are usually thrown out the way for the main girl to be shown, this also places the other women as unwanted and basically have no meaning or identity to the video, rendering them use less,thus leaving them only as eye candy.
The main girl will then be shown in the video with the artist the majority of the time. This would include explicit scenes showing the girl dancing on the artist or touching him in a sexual way. 

In these videos Men are the dominating gender showing the women weak and worthless.
Overall I believe that the way women are treated in these videos is vulgar and unpleasant to both them and the viewer.

Sorry if the Quantity of this isn't the most but i didn't see there would be anything left to right.

Grading

1/12

D1

You have a number of good points here and have chosen your examples well, but you don't really have any specific examples to back up your points made.

T: Find specific examples and apply them to your chosen videos to help you fully explain your points.

Evaluation

The music video i chose was Justin Bieber Boyfriend.

After answering the questions i would have presented my answers by reading the key points of the different answers.
After i would give a overall,

In this music video Justin is showed as a huge attraction to women, as a role model to people and a massive icon. At the start of the video there are 2 girls in a car watching a Justin Bieber video. Over the entire video you see, fast expensive cars,good looking women and men sexually attracted to the women. In a comparison to other videos, this one shows a lot more respect towards women, the men are not all over the women but are attracted, the women are in decent clothes not just a bikini and knickers. In this video the women look a little more classy other than ones in the more recent music, as example would be Blurred Lines.

Jason Morrison

50 Cent Candy Shop

The song candy shop is highly provocative, it has sexual references in the song as well. Some of the references are lick on my Lollipop, and pointing towards his private area.  Also " If you show me you can work baby, you can get on top."


Another aspect of this video is the way women are portrayed, in nearly all the scenes of the music video women have tight tops on and some tight latex to make parts of there body be the focus. This music video also implies that women are highly seductive and very sexually active. It means that all women should behave and perform in a sexually provocative manor that in public would be unacceptable.

Again in the video shows the average male who once again in rapping videos have The big coats and the Bling Bling such as chains around their necks on show. furthermore there are the expensive sports cars on show, this also implies that men should be rich and be able to purchase the expensive gold chains and Fast sports cars.

Most men and women are not how music videos show them to be, and the majority of the population would disagree with the way that the women are highly provocative and sexually infused in the way they look as tho they are trying to seduce the male members of the video.

Time School

My image looks like a time vortex, it has a blend of science fiction colors and shows a school merging into the vortex to travel through time.

The time school is a place where children go to study every aspect of history, the best part about it is that they get to live every moment by traveling in time.

In my image I have used the smudge tool to blend the brighter colors with the darker colors. There are many different layers on my image but i have mainly focused on making the vortex realistic. I have made the color of the school layer a blue color and made it slightly transparent to allow us to see the school. I've finally added a glow to the School to make it look as tho it's traveling in time.

I dont have the picture and i cant get it from frog server!!!!

I have not got the correct resources to complete the homework Mr Jackson. Sorry

Regards Jason Morrison

Denotation and Connotation album cover Homework

1)

Denotation: I can see a skeleton and a hell spawn/demon I also see Fire and Blood Writing from the picture i can also see that the skeleton has control over the demon.

Connotation: From what i can see Iron Maiden is a violent and hardcore rock band that show interest in the dark arts/satanic ways.

2)

Denotation:

I can see the American flag, a man with jeans and a tucked in white t-shirt with what looks like a bra in his back pocket and the words Born in the USA and The Artist.

Connotation: 

From looking at the cover it tells us that America is all about skinny Jeans Shot T-Shirts and Taking Women's Clothing.

3)

Denotation: 

I can see a Black leather glove touching a persons Leg and the title The Strokes is This IT

Connotation:
This shows and tells me that touching someone's thigh/leg make it the right time/ IT.

4)

Denotation:
4men Long Hair Queen 2 Black background

Connotation:
I can see that its a old style cover where people had long hair and the title could mean that the album is related to royalty.

5)

Denotation: Hills Grey Black Background and Lines.

Connotation: This Album cover doesnt show me much other then theres hills and that the area around is mysterious being blacked out.

6)

Denotation: I see a man on fire shacking another mans hand, its day time and theres white buildings around.

Connotation: From this cover I can see the man on the right has been either attacked and set himself on fire on his way to meet the man on the left.

7)

Denotation: Four Man stand around a pillar in a waste land.

Connotation: The men are hanging around in a waste land like its a casual day for them they are also standing with their heads down looking at the ground it also could mean that the group dont know where they are.

8)

Denotation: Pink with streaks/lines going in a diagonal dirrection with the words Soulwax Nite Versions.

Connotation: When enlarged you can't see the writing, This just looks like a pink picture.

9)

Denotation: 5 men 1 women all wearing either black or white / both for the men. A black and white background red writing.

Connotation: Theres a group of men and 1 women called parallel lines Blondie. They are a casual group that are in the style of old/retro.

10)

Denotation: Black man, Black background

Connotation: From this i can see a maybe worried or stressed out man. The background might suggest what emotion he is feeling or he might be in a dark place.