Influential Media Texts

These texts I have chosen for my influential texts were chosen to reflect the type of feelings and emotions I am trying to achieve within my music video. To try and find out how the audience feels about my style of music video I have devised a series of questions relating my my influential media texts to see how they consume them.

1. Do you think the lyrics relate to the narrative?
2. Does the narrative capture the emotions of the song?
3. How would you rate the editing? 1-10
4. What would you say is typical of music videos of this genre?
5. What type of artist would you expect to find in a music video of this genre and theme?



I chose this music video because of the slow editing techniques used throughout to coincide with the high emotions of the song. The lighting throughout this music video is quite dark and could reflect the lyrics of the song as being a deep and upsetting song.



I chose this music video because of the narrative and lyrics of the video. The desperation to find someone you love are reflected in the slow cuts and body language of both artists. The cut to the man on piano shows that this is just a music video and not real life therefore breaking the verisimilitude.


To gain feedback for this painting, I created some other questions that would suit the subject of painting:

1. What does this painting portray about how the woman is feeling?
2. What emotions could she be going through?
3. Do you feel pity for the woman? If not, why?
4. What effect does this painting have on you?
5. If you were the woman in the painting, what thoughts would be going through your head?

I chose this image as it reflects the type of emotion that my artist feels in my chosen song. This image called 'Woman With Folded Arms' by Pablo Picasso was painted in Picasso's 'Blue Period', the time between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green. Femme aux Bras Croises (Woman With Folded Arms), was painted in 1902.