Summer 2018 Mock DIRT (music)
Question 2: Q) Explain one way in which music videos use media language to differ from each other. Refer to one example of contrasting media language in two music videos you have studied to support your answer. A) In the music video for the song, Not Letting Go, by Tinie Tempah and Jess Glynne, mise-en-scene is used to portray females as objects of desire for males on scene and in the audience. This is achieved through costumes and camera shots and movements. This is shown through the imaging of females in the video wearing certain clothes and the camera types involved. The cloths that are worn by females on screen are 'revealing'. This combined with the medium-long shot shows off the female in question. Although, in the other music video, Picking Up The Pieces, by Paloma Faith, the clothes used in the video is different to Not Letting Go. The clothes worn by the main woman, Paloma Faith, are formal cloths which portrays her as an independant woman. This combined withe ...
