Thursday 16 November 2017

ARTIST VID #6 - Hit Me

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE
  • The slow-motion



TRACK: Hit Me
ALBUM: Bloodsports
YEAR: 2013
GENRE: Alternative rock
DIRECTOR: 
LABEL:  Warner UK
SINGLE?: Yes, second.


BACKGROUND/CONTEXT

  • ...




PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE OR CONCEPT?
Pure narrative, with the band making a cameo but not they don't perform at all.

EXTRA SOUND:


TITLES:

No titles, however the thumbnail has been given titles, all white and underlined, with Suede the biggest as is the most common convention.







NARRATIVE ENIGMA:


RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS:

When the chorus line "Come on and hit me" is played, at one time, the paint is 

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND VISUALS:
....

GENRE SIGNIFIERS:
The typical Bad Boy and Girl, romance, teen genre.

INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES:

A reference to the Bad Boy archetype of Marlon Brando's The Wild One?
This clip could be said to have similar features to this scene:



OTHER NARRATIVE THEORY:

TODOROV'S FIVE STAGE EQUILIBRIUM
1. Equilibrium: A normal art gallery, the 
2. Disruption: Vandalizing
3. Recognition: When 
4. Attempt to repair?: In the normal sense you'd expect someone to stop him vandalising, but no, the girl joins in
5. Thereby they create their own equilibrium, and in a sense for the art connosoirs as well,

KATE DOMAILLE
Romeo and Juliet - The Love Story


BRANDING:

The album cover cleverly integrated into the video as a painting.

REPRESENTATION:

GENDER: The male character is a bit more aggressive and abrasive, like the Marlon Brando archetype 

ETHNICITY: ...


SEXUALITY: 

CLASS: 
...


ABILITY/DISABILITY: ...

AUDIENCE REPRESENTED/TARGETED:
Appealing to young audiences with the theme of rebellion, a bit tamer than their more weirder characters in videos like Trash, Animal Nitrate, a reflection that audiences today have been brought up a bit more conservative?








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