Women Represented in a positive and negative way.

I have chosen Jason Derulo as my negative video - "Talk Dirty" feat 2 Chainz. I chose this video because of the way the girls dance and act in this song. At the beginning of the song Jason Derulo is sitting on a tan machine with a girl, she is  lying down and the mirror on the tan machine makes it look like there is more then one girl. In the video Jason has no top on whilst the camera is zooming from above onto the girl and Jason, so that you can see them both in the whole shot. Also one of the girls is playing the trumpet and has no other part in the video, when she is playing the trumpet she is going up and down but does not seem to be playing it. This Means that she had nothing else to do in the video, so the director has just placed her into one part. I think it is because she isn't good enough to me an actual music girl as she is blacked out in the video. Jason is singing about girls bottoms as they are twerking behind him. The girls are always in the video when they are with jason, because if it was just him on his own not many people would like it. When he says talk dirty to me there is a close up on him and a girl and she is whispering in his ear, this comes across as very sexual. When 2 Chainz comes in he starts singing about sex but isn't with any girls only Jason is. At the end of the video behind the girl there is a drink called neuro bliss, on the drink it says that it's a stress reliever, I think jason has put this in his video so that he can get paid more

Next I have chosen P!NK as my positive video - True Love ft. Lily Allen. I chose this video because it shows what real love is an not just a girl who is shaking her bum. There are no sexual gaze in this video. In most of the video makeup is not needed because her love is true and nothing will change how she looks, She also doesn't throw her self at the boyfriend. There are not many close ups, but it shows her having fun in the video and being her own person not being told what to do. She says really loves him, the man isnt doing anything in this video showing that it is her decision of what to do. They are using rose pettles in a scene and throwing it at each other, as a sign of love and that she is being treated well by the man. In the video she is also saying that the man can push her away but in the end it is her decision if she still likes him. Pink says its true love. I think that P!NK is her own women and is not being told what to do and not shaking her bum.

Grading

1/12

B2

What you have here is very good and you have responded well to the question. You have used examples well to explain your point. 

T: Try to use more key terms (see VCOP Blog) to help you fully develop your answer. Pick out all of the technical aspects (Mise-en-scene, editing, lyrics etc) and how they help you come to your conclusions.

Photoshop transforming images

Step 1: First find an two images you would want for example an apple and a tigers mouth, save it to your desktop and drag it into Photoshop.

Step 2: Now lower the capacity of layer one for your tiger to about 62% so you can Aline the mouth to were you would like it on the apple.

Step 3: After that select packs on the pen tool and outline the mouth of the image. Now click on pack and click make selection and press OK.

Step 3: Now press apple shift I, that will select the inverse of what you just selected, then press delete. Use a lasso to merge the two pictures.

Step 4: Draw a circle with what you want to transform, click edit then transform and wrap. This will give you a grid play around with it to suit your image then click enter. if you want to make it look 3D grab a rubber and rub certain areas out.

Grading


1/11

AMBER

This isn't really finished as, although you have a detailed account of the task, it isn't accompanied by images and a step by step guide. 


T: Please finish this task fully explaining how you use the tool using step by step images.

Representation

Girls have no identity's in music videos, they are just in the video to make the song better. In a song by 2 Chainz ft Kanye West called Birthday song, the girls are all shaking there bottoms for the men because its there birthday. The song is terrible but the girls made it better this is why 38 million people like this song. In a part of the song the girls look like robots doing the exact same thing which is shaking there bottom and men dancing around them. In the video pour it up by Rihanna the girls are dancing around poles like strippers, and shaking there ass. Whilst Rihanna is twerking and liking a lolly pop. This will come across as very sexual for some people, this is why people dislike the video. She also sings about srtip club money and is through it up in the air like she is a stripper

The dance moves the girls do provide pleasure for young men. That could tell the men that they are just sexual objects and nothing more than that. The song is also saying that for your birthday you should get a big booty hoe. But most people spend time with there family, the girls are doing this for money but men get the wrong idea. Then they think nothing of them and treat them like they want sex. In the video pour it up the girls dancing around poles will give pleasure to young men and will still treat them like nothing.

Video girls are on every video and it isn't rare not to see them. Some times on television and films. This will not stop men from thinking girls are selling sex in these videos, and are being brain washed into a bad song. All of these statements are true and they are shown in some of there videos. So maybe girls are just sex objects, well that's what other men think. But these girls are not afraid to show there body so it isn't the audiences fault about what they think of these girls. It's how the girls represent them self to the men.

Grading

1/11

B2

What you have here is very good and you have responded well to the question, even posing your own questions. You have used examples solidly. 

T: Try to use more examples and key terminology (see VCOP Blog). Pick out all of the technical aspects (Mise-en-scene, editing, lyrics etc) and how they help you come to your conclusions.