Summer Project: Coursework Planning
1) Research: music video analysis You need to write a 200-word close-textual analysis of five (or more!) music videos in your chosen genre. For each music video, focus on a different aspect of media language, and embed each one on your blog: Music Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the music video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the music video? https://youtu.be/e-ORhEE9VVg Taylor Swift: Blank Space The music video is a hybrid of narrative and a performance. The narrative used in this music video is of a woman that lives a wealthy luxurious life as suggested by the mansion she lives in, the clothes she's wearing and her accessories and the fact that she had horses in her bedroom. The song plays on the media's perception of the artists relationships and turned her image of a "psycho serial dater" to a satirical masterpiece. Her character in the video is a crazy,psycho jealous girlfrien