MUSIC: SK8R BOI

  

Avril Lavigne Sk8R Boi is our second music video. We study:

• how the genre of her music comes across in the music video's media language 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne#Musical_style_and_songwriting
• this means the style of editing, the pace, the way she uses the camera to engage her audience, the lighting and colours
• representation in the video - of LA, of Lavigne, of her gang, in particular, the mise-en-scène. Themes in her music include messages of self-empowerment from a female or an adolescent view.
• Avril Lavigne Sk8ter Boi

POLICE PROCEDURAL GENRE CONVENTIONS

We discussed police procedural genre conventions and compared those of endeavour with cuffs.. We identified several miss-en-scene codes such as clothing codes, locations, uniforms, weapons, ranks. There was more evidence of violent crimes, whereas cuffs is pre-watershed and has to be family-friendly.

 We noticed differences: Cuffs is set in the 2020s so there are representations of different ethnicities, of gay people, of women.

We then watched the opening title sequence to Strike. This TV programme is about a disillusioned private detective (rather than a police force). The colours are low-key and dirty. The title sequence uses strong contrast lighting - chiaroscuro. 

We then experimented with setting up photos to achieve a similar effect.

Props included a fedora, cape, mackintosh and guns.

This is a photo we took in the lesson. We were trying to make it look like a police officer in the old days had a gun held up to him. This is representing the genre.

MY MEDIA WORLD

 On the weekend I watched mean girls with my cousin. Here is a review