Thursday, 7 September 2017

The Male gaze in todays music

The male gaze in Music Videos

1) are the videos empowering or degrading 
2) are the women in control
3) are the videos aimed at men or women or both

How is the male gaze presented in the following music videos:
  • Taylor Swift- Bad Blood
  • Justin Timberlake- Tunnel Vision
  • Rihanna- poor it on 

Clip 1- Taylor Swift, Bad Blood.
1) The music video used for Taylor Swifts 'Bad Blood' is very contradictive in the way that the females in the video are very hardcore and have many different types of fighting abilities. This is very empowering for the female gender as this is not a role both men and women are used to seeing and 












Clip 2- Justin Timberlake, Tunnel vision.


















Clip 3- Rihanna, Poor It On

Monday, 4 September 2017

Top 10 TV Dramas


Top 10 TV dramas


1)Prison Break



Prison Break follows a man, Michael Scofield, on his mission to break his brother out of prison. Michael is convinced that his brother, Lincoln Burrows, is innocent of the crime for which he was committed, which was the murder of the vice president's brother.


2)Orange Is The New Black




Orange Is The New Black is an American comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan, which premiered on July 11, 2013, on netflix. the series, based on Piper Kerman's memoir orange Is The New Black: My Year in a women Prison (2010), follows Piper Chapman, a happily engaged New Yorker who is sent to a women's federal prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money across international borders, 10 years prior, for her girlfriend at the time, Alex Vause.


3)Westworld



Westworld isn't your typical amusement park. Intended for rich vacationers, the futuristic park allows its visitors to live out their most primal fantasies with the robotic "hosts." However, the robotic hosts have evolved an artificial consciousness that is similar to, yet diverges from, human consciousness.


4)Walking Dead



Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse.

5)Breaking Bad







To make sure his family is financially secure Walter White a once loyal father and chemistry teacher turns to a life of crime after developing stage 3 terminal lung cancer. Teaming up with a former student Jesse Pinkman they turn to distributing the purest crystal meth on the streets.

6)Sherlock




Back in London, his search for a  place to stay leads Dr. Watson to share a flat with Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant but eccentric private detective. together they solve baffling, and often bizarre, murder mysteries. They also have to compete with Holmes' nemesis, the criminal genius Moriarty.


7)Broadchurch




As the Dorset resort of Broadchurch prepares for the summer season, 11 year old Danny Latimer goes missing. When a body is found on the beach, Miller recognizes the victim as 11 year old Danny Latimer, a family friend who frequently played with her own son of the same age.

8)Silent witness



Silent Witness is a forensics crime drama that focuses on a pathologist who attempts to identify murder victims and figure out what caused them to die.

9)Daredevil




The first season sees lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock use his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil, while uncovering a conspiracy of the criminal underworld being led by Wilson Fisk.

10)13 Reasons why




Clay Jenson follows through the path of bullying described and narrated by Hannah Baker after she commits suicide in her own bathtub and leaves tape recordings of who she blames and for how they played a part in her death.


statement of intent

I intend to use media language in my music video by trying to have the common features of a dance music gene video, meaning I will use fema...