Unfortunately I can't come in today due to being run over. If you cycle, please wear a helmet! However, you can still prepare for your upcoming first year mock exam while my broken collar bone heals.
For this task, you'll be practicing Planning a response to an UNSEEN Text. Planning is very important in exams. You'll receive marks for your plan, and they'll help you to structure your answer.
First, click the above link, and watch the advert TWICE IN A ROW.
Next, on a new blog post, under the heading MEDIA LANGUAGE, please list the examples of media language that stick out for you. For example, shit types, editing, camera movement, costume, setting, mise-en-scene... everything on the TEXTUAL ANALYSIS TOOLKIT!
Below are some examples that Q block (your rivals) came up with. Feel free to capy and paste them in to your own post to get started.
Initial analysis: media language
- Close up shot: oranges being stuffed down a top
- C/U of woman's bottom in stereotypically dilapidated trailer setting
- Binary oppositions between high key and low lighting
- Flickering film distortion creates an eccentric mise en scene - edgy!
- C/U shot of girl's monobrow - stereotypically not attractive - subverts hegemonic rules regarding female attractiveness
- C/U shot of another model's bottom which reinforces the sexual objectification key to this advert
- L/A shot of dancing model: emphasises his power and dominance
- C/U model's face: cataract in left eye. Another obvious 'flaw', and a binary oppostion between the non-functioning eye and the skill involved in editing
- Iconography and aesthetic: clothing is edgy, subversive, revealing, emphasising both vulnerability and confidence
- Stylishly dirty...
- Fast paced, frenetic editing, messy and exciting
- Eding both conventional of adverts and music videos
- Male gaze: stereotypically attractive women, encoded through consistent closeups of naked flesh
- Gesture: disrespectful baring of teeth: binary oppostion between girl and authority
Sample paragraph of Q Block's
A significant ideological perspective presented by this advert is to accept one's flaws no matter what. One iconographic aspect that encodes this ideology is the leather jacket and revealing silver bra worn by the outlaw in the prison cell towards the end of the advert. The mise en scene of the leather jacket has clear symbolic connotations of dominance and rebellion. This is further reinforced by the silver bra, which demonstrates the ideological perspective that she is not going to hide her flaws. The intradiegetic male gaze of her cell mate anchors her hegemonic stereotypical attractiveness for the target audience. This excellent example of Van-Zoonen's assertion of the male gaze firmly confirms her presence within the advert as to be looked at by heterosexual men. This in turn confirms the ideology of the producer:that women's bodies are a spectacle for financial profit.
Ultimately, the Go With The Flaw advertising campaign sells the audience an elaborate and confrontational lifestyle if they buy Diesel jeans...
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