• blue and white colour palette, less colour diverse to riptide

Vance Joy ‘Fire and the Flood’ compared to Riptide

Similarities

• Use of closeups
• Invisible edits
• Two abstract aspects of the videos, just riptide has it all the way throughout

Differences

• Location: set in one setting
• Editing: Riptide Montage
• tracking shots- long takes
• Riptide had less literal/metaphorical meanings
• FATF- Narrative based, non-linear narrative
• Riptide: fragmented narratives
• Performance: star persona, showing his face in this video compared to riptide.

Intertextuality: the way in which texts gain meaning through their referencing or evocation of other texts.

Meanings can be produced/implied through intertextuality.

Parody: Mimicry of an established concept, idea or a person with deliberate exaggeration for comedic effect.

Satire: humour that stands for a social or political change. It depicts an anger of frustration while trying to make the subject palatable. Its mockery but not mimicry. Trying to make society to think about an issue whilst parody does not.

Pastiche: A work that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists as a form of celebration or tribute to the original.  Known as the concept of music being replicated by other artists. “Great artists steal”

How riptide uses intertextuality

Western Iconography- Not a whole meaning other than to reference the literal meanings of the film

Reference to the horror film “Don’t look now” – blonde woman wearing red.- Reference to the horror element in feminine features in riptide

Cinematography References:

• Wes Anderson
• Roger Deakins
• David Lynch

Reference to Wes Anderson’s ‘Hipster’ films- Reflects the style of riptide, symmetrical shots and costume and colour grading. The effect of having something visually central creates a focus point

Reference to The Assassination of Jesse James (2008), a Roger Deakins style of having a silhouette on a dark background

Reference to David Lynch’s film ‘Blue velvet’, the singer that is pictured ‘singing the words wrong.’

Hipster Culture

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20s and 30s that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, as appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence and witty banter.

They are pioneers and leaders of the latest cultural trends and ideals. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions.

Surrealism

Is a 20th century movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Avant-garde: experimental

To what extent can Riptide be classified as a surrealist piece of art?

• Many shots of women running away- as if they dont know they are being filmed
• Possible reference to abuse through the smeared makeup
• Women looking from a balcony- independence

Use of weapons- bondage

Why have these images been used in the music bifeo and could they be interpreted as trivialising or normalising violence?

The video construct a range of different stimuli that the audience are invited to interpret

The video rejects singular, straightforward messages and instead invites a variety of different responses and interpretations.

Women as objects

Revisiting the video again, identity shots where women are presented as ‘objects’.

Consider whether these images of women are sexualised and offered to audiences for their pleasure (Mulvey GCSE theory)

• Domestic violence
• Uncomfortable- “lump in my throat”
• Stereotypes- interpret either positive or negative in regards to beauty
• Exploited women- highkey lighting and vulnerability and harsh.
• Lyrics- the subtitles are wrong, shes being humiliated by singing the words wrong
• Subversion of beauty
• Highkey to lowkey, represents society as hushing violence