Beyonce Run the world and Dizzee Rascal

In this music video for Beyonce's run the world a binary opposite is created between the men and women. The men stand around with riot shields, chains and batons. They have a very anarchistic semiotics. Comparatively the women all look authoritarian with police hats and black leather. This creates the effect of making the women seem calm and collected while the men seem wild but intimidated by the women. Conversely in Dream where representations of gender is not the focus of the video the representation is far more standard. There is puppet girls, representing the working class, as objects of desire in the beginning and mothers towards the end, the mother especially is treated respectfully and is not seen as less for being a young mother. This is a positive representation of gender. However the more interesting representation is the older woman, who represents the establishment and 'ruling classes' who is quietly disapproving or supportive of the things he does and choices he makes throughout, this representation of establishment as a woman could imply that like the establishment older women are inflexible and controlling, which is a negative and stereotypical representation of gender.

The ways that the women are dressed in each music video is also indicative of how they are being portrayed. The women in Beyonce's run the world are dressed provocatively, in black leather and showing a lot of skin. However, rather than this being a negative representation of gender, it is shown as a good thing, implying that they are fashionably and sexually liberated from oppressive patriarchal standards, rather than they being objects of the male gaze. Inversely both the puppet girls and the older woman are dressed extremely modestly in long dresses with plain, muted colours. Both the colours and the style of dress imply control from the woman, who represents the oppressive establishment, 'protecting their modesty' and holding them to backwards patriarchal standards. The shots in which the first girls are shown are also in the closer shots implying the male gaze of the camera, which makes sense in the narrative as the time that happens is when Dizzee is talking about getting girls.

Both the music videos in some way inverse the way that male and female identity expression is portrayed. Gauntlett's identity theory is the idea that the media provide us with 'tools' or resources that we use to construct our identities. The idea that whilst in the past the media tended to convey symbolism, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities, the media today offer us a more diverse range of stars, icons and characters. In Dream there's a representation of a young black father pushing a pram, a very unstereeotypical portrayal for a young black man. However, this portrayal simultaneously conforms to the more traditional idea of the nuclear family which could be said to be reductive. Like wise in Run the world's video and lyrics women are portrayed as explicitly dominant over men, breaking the past media expectation. 

Gilroy believes that colonial discourses continue inform contemporary attitudes to race and ethnicity in the post colonial era. Civilisation constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary oppositions based on notions of otherness to races other than white. As both these songs are by black artists this theory applies to both of their work. The more clear example of this theory is in Dizzee Rascal's video which features mostly black characters in the video's autobiographical narrative. Images of stereotypes like loitering and graffiti surround the black characters as well as the heavily stereotypical scotsman drinking. The most explicit scene of racial bias from this theory would be the police brutality scene with the puppets, showing the racial profiling the artist or people of his race may have experienced. This colonialism is shown to have held him back previously. However later in the video all of them are in a studio away from the policeman outside showing that through their success they overcame racism and colonialism. 

Dizzy Rascal - Dream

The iconography of this video mimics the 50's show muffin the mule, down to the woman playing the piano. The woman in the video represents classic conservative, white, middle class England. She representing the white middle class England, controls the puppets in the video. This creates the binary opposition of the white woman singing and the stereotypical actions of black puppets on the piano.

At the beginning of the video Dizzee Rascal himself comes out of the box as soon as the woman begins to play the music.  This shows that he is self aware that he is being controlled by the woman, who represents the white middle class society, and showing him getting back in the box at the end shows that he is content with it. This could be a point about black artists having to give up on some of the aggression that is drawn from grime and replace it with pop to gain mainstream appeal and that in this way he has sacrificed to get where he is.

The puppets themselves all show representations of people from the street level of England, the young, mostly black, men all being stereotypical acting puppets shows how people from the woman's perspective of society view young working class black men, as well as the fact that they are on strings showing that they are being controlled by the society.

Later in the video the representation increases as the police come in with helicopters and cars, making the woman recoil and cringe at it, with a police officer puppet beginning to beat up the two black guy puppets from the beginning. Although despite being in a position of power over those being victims of police brutality, the officer is still on the same strings as all the other puppets, showing the opinion that even in real life who have more powers over others are still at street level and being controlled by the society.

The change of scenery to a recording studio as the lyrics explain how he got there. The policeman puppet is shown banging on the window trying to get in to continue fighting with them but is unable to. This showing how Dizzee's music career has allowed him to surpass the everyday struggles on the street, of police brutality to relative comfort. The woman's face changes to polite concern as the scene changes to one of his performances, it represents the society questioning whether or not he has been given too much power and influence for where he came from. He however is also shown to be taking advantage of the system by having the woman hold up his album, this could also represent how he is now appealing to a mainstream audience.

The song itself then goes into his advice for people aspiring to get where he is, there is two notable instances in this section, the first being the woman nodding to his message of "keep school in your plans" showing how he has to put messages approved by society in his music now. This must be significant to him as he would not be used to feeling pressured to include positive messages in his work as he would have before becoming popular. There is also the subversion of stereotypes in the form of the black man pushing a pram and being shown as a responsible father. This is a clear subversion of the stereotype of absent black father and portrays a very positive message.

Riptide by Vance Joy

I was scared of dentists and the dark
I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations
Oh, all my friends are turning green
You're the magician's assistant in their dreams

Oh
Oh and they come unstuck

Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat 'cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong

Is this movie that I think you'll like
This guy decides to quit his job and heads to New York City
This cowboy's running from himself
And she's been living on the highest shelf

Oh
Oh and they come unstuck

Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat 'cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong

There's this movie that I think you'll like
This guy decides to quit his job and heads to New York City
This cowboy's running from himself
And she's been living on the highest shelf
Oh, oh-o-oh, and they come unstuck

Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong

I just wanna, I just wanna know
If you're gonna, if you're gonna stay
I just gotta, I just gotta know
I can't have it, I can't have it any other way
I swear she's destined for the screen
Closest thing to Michelle Pfeiffer that you've ever seen, oh

Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong
Oh lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong
Oh lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong
I got a lump in my throat cause you're gonna sing the words wrong

Parody and pastiche of Wes Anderson and David Lynch

Wes Andersons style most clearly imitated by the suitcase scene. Objects place meticulously within a suitcase being closed.

David lynch's style is in the scenes where the woman is singing in the club style.

The Independent music genre is music that is produced independent from music record labels. It could also refer to music not intended for mainstream audiences.

Horror movie trailer

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But Loach has erred in the opposite direction. For a filmmaker who styles himself a ‘social realist’, he has an absurdly romantic view of benefit claimants.' opposite reading

Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Stars: Dave johns, Hayley squires, Sharon Percy
Funding: 16 films
budget: Low budget
distribution: eOne films
Casting: Casts lots of people from the setting and who aren't actors for a feeling of authenticity

Assassins creed 3: Liberation

The genre of the game is action-adventure, stealth. The avatar you play as is Aveline, the first female assassin in the series. With her you can switch between three outfits: an assassin's outfit, a slave disguise, and a posh dress. The game is initially set in 1700s New Orleans, but you are able to travel to other places later in the game. The controls are more or less the same as the rest of the Assassin's creed games, but slightly changed to adapt to PS Vita. For example, if you wanted to run in an Assassin's creed game using a PS3 controller, you would have to hold both the R1 and X buttons, but to run with the PS Vita controls, you only have to hold down the R2 button. There was already a previous Assassin's Creed game released on the PSP, so this was the second AC game released as a portable game. However, the controls were more reminiscent of those on a console game and it was later released for some consoles in HD. The multiplayer options of the game was extremely limited and was essentially a mini game of dispatching troops to nodes on a map, this was a far cry from the mechanics of the single player game and was a disappointment to fans. The limitations of the game was mostly down to the PS Vita's limits such as poor graphics compared to the mainline releases and laggy visuals with frequent framerate drops. However the game also had Issues with the AI of NPC's glitching and not responding correctly to the player.

The company that develops and publishes the assassins creed franchise is Ubisoft, a french game company headquartered in Montreuil, France they own multiple successful video game franchises such as Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs which are all story driven Action Adventure games as well as more pure FPS games such as Rainbow Six siege and Tom Clancy's: The Division.

Film trailer  & Poster - avengers infinity war

The avengers infinity war poster stands reminiscent of the old style of painted posters, such as star wars and krull. It shows off all of the hero characters in one poster, which appeals to main selling point of the film; being that all the characters from the universe that has been created around the franchise will appear in the film. The characters diverse colour schemes are united by the flares of the various colours. In this way the characters don't seem out of place with each other as they may have previously being from different films.

The franchise's symbol of the 'A' stands in the middle to establish a clear brand and stand out. In a similar fashion the title is at the bottom below the ground of the characters and in a mostly dark negative space to draw attention to itself. Some characters have been given more space in the poster than others for example the face of Robert Downey Junior's character being at the top and the largest of all the faces to connote its importance.