We made you paragraph - narrative

The video “We made you” by Eminem utilises intertextual references and pastiche to create a sense of disorientation and black humour. The fact that Eminem dresses in multiple personas i.e. dressing as a range of celebrates from men to women engages the audience more, as it’s refreshing to see something new and diverse. In most videos the Lyrics are extremely important to deciphering the meaning behind the video; however Eminem expertly uses the audience’s knowledge of pop culture in the video, so if we just view the video without the actual lyrics we would be able to understand what he is saying. The video itself has no narrative structure as the concept of the video is just to “Celebrity bash”, so there isn't an enigma in the video.  There is various iconography used to depict celebrities, i.e. the infamous shorts, boots and blonde hair of Jessica Simpson.

 

My course work video is A Thousand years by Christina Perri. The main theme of the video is love, I am going to utilise imagery and iconography to convey meaning through the use of couples of different ages. I plan to have a range of couples to show the diversity of romance. My main protagonist is going to be a child, as I want to depict and connote the innocence and virtue of love. I plan on making direct links to lyrics and make it link with the visual aspects aka the video, so when she is singing about years (Age), i am making a connection by having different  aged couples .