Metanarrative - an overarching narrative or system of belief which helps us to make sense of the world.

Post Modernism - cannot have a definition. It often values style over substance and emphasises surface readings over deeper analysis. An example of post-modernism is also breaking the fourth wall.

RIPTIDE - Vance Joy

  • montage of shots suggest themes of dying and death
  • unpredictable and deliberately misleading montage of shots which provokes polysemic interpretations
  • Each shot consistently matches the song lyrics
  • Extremely confusing video however it makes sense to the song 
  • Intertextuality as it refers to old films, and the mise-en-scene of the cowboy conforms to conventions of western films and uses referential codes
  • Horror films are referenced multiple times, such as the ouija board and this mise-en-scene is typically associated with horror cinema
  • Mise-en-scene throughout is very 70s and anchors the audience into this time period and this is quite edgy and cool to many audiences
  • Mid/ls of the woman being dragged under the bed is slightly low angle and the low key lighting which connotes to darkness, misery and treat
  • Voyeuristic mid shot as well as the photograph of the book on photographing woman is quite objective and the woman is supposed to be stereotypically pretty. Connotations to Bond films and Bond girls. 
  • Positions the audience as being the pevert, links to Lisbet van Zoonen

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