Contrasting Music Videos
Contrasting Music Videos
Foo Fighters- Learn To Fly
The main representation of this music video is the obese people on the plane, this is because when the obese people are served coffee which has accidentally been contaminated with a certain drug causing them to hallucinate making them see people as food. This stereotype is suggesting that most fat people thing about food and eating. Another representation of this music video is that all flight attendants have to be thin, female and pretty, this is because females or gay males give more of a warm welcome and approachable to someone with more of a masculine body. Also have to be thin to fit down the aisle as to someone who was bigger would struggle. Also that male flight attendants are mostly guy as they fit the female role and males who are straight will be seen as gay because of the stereotype that all male flight attendants are gay.
The main representation of this music video is the male gaze theory as most media is constructed predominantly for the male audience. This is because males are more active and dominant than females, who are passive (looked at). This music video is Beyoncé and other females dancing in small bodysuits making the males view this video. Mulvey argues that female characters are 'coded' or represented as the 'object' of the male gaze. The women in this video dance in a sexual way, conforming to a narrow idea of beauty. This is an accurate representation of what males think females should look like as the media saturates the distinction between reality and media representations. The colour scheme is black and white. Black implying strength, seriousness, power and authority where as white is suggesting light, goodness, innocence and purity. Overall this shows that there are two sides to women the Good and bad sides.
Michael Jackson- Thriller
The main representation of this music video is the woman where in the video she is seen as weak and fragile where as the man is seen as strong and tough. This reinforces the stereotype that woman need to be protected as the location is shown in a graveyard because the viewers see the graveyard as cold and mysterious.
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