Friday, 27 April 2018

Dreams by Dizzee rascal

Here is the video:



  • The puppets that are shown in the music video could be there to represent the government controlling the public, or the strings represent control that you need to break away from to gain your dreams.
  • Also the disgrace that is shown on the face of the upper class lady when the police are attacking young black people. This could be there to represent the fact that she , as an upper class lady, has never been exposed to a scene like that. also when dizzee is rapping and everyone is dancing there is a terrified look on her face suggesting that youth culture frightens her as she has never been exposed to it or a supporter of it. 
  • Overall I think that the video is a music video 

The link to Captain sensible's "Happy Talk", the original is from a musical in the 1950's.(called-South Pacific) ~I believe that the reason why the artist used this is because he liked the way that lyrics link into his morals in the song. Moreover, some would say that the artist would of used the number 1 hit in the 80's to attract a wider audience.

Relationship between old woman and Dizzee. Seems to be a friendly relationship throughout the video as she promotes his album and starts to sing along to dizzee's lyrics which suggests they have a nice and friendly relationship. However there are points in the video where the woman looks terrified of the young grime artist by her look on her face which shows shes scared and a bit overwhelmed by dizzees aggressive nature suggesting although they have a friendly relationship she is terrified of dizzee at times. 


Monday, 12 March 2018

A level beauty


A-LEVEL BEAUTY
In this article the phrase “a level girls do this…” and words such as “the latest” “new” etc. all suggest that in the 1960s everyone wanted to “keep up with the jones’s so this article gives a big sense on keeping up with the Jones’s by having all the new cool makeup tactics and tips.

There is also a score scale to rank your makeup almost setting an expectation for women to have good makeup because there is an expectation for them to be beautiful and its saying that only thing you need to worry about is scoring high in the makeup scale so you are beautiful for your man.

The whole A-level beauty is a mockery of women as you get A-levels for academic achievements and topics but it saying be an A-level beauty its suggesting that women are not smart enough for academics or good enough to make important decisions therefore but should just focus on beauty as they are not capable of anything else and should just look pretty for the man. Van Zoonen could also argue that the only reason women wear make up its just so they look more attractive for men so its only for male gaze and so they see them as a better sex object.

Monday, 26 February 2018

Postcolonial theory by Paul Gilroy


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Paul Gilroy believes that colonial discourses continue inform contemporary attitudes to race and ethnicity in  the post colonial era. Civilization-ism  constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary oppositions based on notions of otherness.
An example is the British empire, in 1913 the British empire held way over 412 million people,23% of the worlds population.
Britain post-imperial postcolonial melancholia demonstrates its failure to let go of a long gone imperial past reproduces in the present imperial impulse. A target of impulse may be an 
immigrant

Here is a video explaining the postcolonial theory in more detail below.


Thursday, 22 February 2018

Magazines

Magazines by angelos on Scribd

Media Re-Do Section A


Media Re-do Miss banks -Section A
In both of the adverts there is a big representation of gender in both of the adverts even though they Nivea is 50 year older than tide.
In TIDE feminists such as Liesbet Van Zoonen could argue that this advert suggest that women belong in the family and home cleaning, cooking, nurturing etc. this is because tide says “tides got what women want” suggesting that if you’re a women you should be happy with tide as the only thing women are meant to do is cleaning. Especially in 1950s America women did not have much power over men and most of their purpose was just to raise children and look after the house while the man goes to work and earns the family’s income. So the 1950s was a very patriarchal society as it was almost all controlled by men and women had no say in it. So Bell Hooks would argue that the idea that sex and race determine your role in a community and by all the women in the advert are white suggests that Tide isn’t targeted for black women as they are at the bottom of the social ladder and shouldn’t have the luxury of the best cleaning products as 1950s was also a very racist society for white and black people. As black people where not treated as equals to whites. She would also argue that this advert shows how patriarchal the society is and how men dominated the 1950s as it suggests that the only thing women need to be happy is to be able to clean very well and be at the home just to do the duties that men don’t want to be doing.
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In Tide and Nivea there is use of semiotics as in Tide the central colour is red which has a feminism colour that could signal love and affection where as in Nivea the colour is blue which is a very masculine colour as when a male baby is baptised it traditionally wears blue colours to show its gender. In Tide there are also hearts over the women’s head suggesting that if you get tide you will be in love with straight away with it as much as you love your man as love hearts are often associated with a man and a woman being in a relationship therefore suggesting you will love Tide as much as you love your man.
 David Gauntlet says that our identity and thoughts are constructed by what media we look at which is true for both of these adverts as in Nivea there is a lot of skin showing unlike Tide suggesting that every male wants this white toned masculine body as portrayed in the advert. While women in the 1950s would want the best and newest products to please their man and to “keep up with jones’s” and would want to be as happy as that women looks in the advert through that advert portrayed through her smile in all the pictures suggesting (through Roland Barthes theory of semiotics) she is very happy with Tide and is living a very good life.
Image result for nivea 3 in 1 shampoo adIn both of the central images it emphasises how good the product is for example in tide the women is hugging the product emphasising her love and satisfaction of the product as its so good it also has some gender stereotypes as in the 1950s women did mostly all the cleaning and that was there role in society therefore it would make sense to put a women in the advert as a white middle class women would have been the target audience, not black women linking in to bell hooks theory as this is suggesting black women aren’t worthy of having Tide. However generally speaking men are portrayed as stereotypically lazy therefore saying that this Nivea allows you to do 3 things at once means you have to put less effort in what you’re doing so this would save you time and effort making very appealing to men. However the central image is still of a white male in the 21st century suggesting that there still isn’t racial equality which is one thing bell Hooks was also fighting for showing throughout the course of 60 years society hasn’t changed that much as there is still racial inequality.
 However in both of the advert hyperbole is used by using word such as “extraordinary, cleanest, whitest, brightens” all these are used to emphasise how good the product but are mostly there to attract the audiences into buying the product all of these statements would attract audiences as everyone wants the best/ newest product to “keep up with the jones’s”.

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

bell hooks and Liesbet Van Zoonen- FEMINIST THEORY

bell hooks - is a black American feminist
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  • The idea that race, sex determine your role in a community 
  • The idea that feminism is a struggle to end sexist / patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination
  • Inter sectionality - form of oppression and how they work against a group
  • "Women are low in the social ladder but if you're black as well you're even lower in the social ladder"
Liesbet van Zoonen
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  • The idea that women are objects and they are to be looked at by male gaze and be portrayed as a sex object for men
  • Gender is constructed through discourse and its meaning varies according to cultural and historical context
  • Magazines construct many gender representation
  • The underlying frame of reference is that woman belong in the house (not my opinion)

production pitch

Mood Pster by angelos on Scribd