Music video essay

There are lots of different stereotypes in music videos including women, different races, young people, gender, women, men and classes.
In rap music videos women are represented in a very sexual way with very little clothing and men are represented as having little respect for women, rich, a pimp and being irrisistable.
In rock music videos they are always performing to a crowd, in a stadium with different lighting.
There are also different performance music videos.
Classic performance videos use instruments, featuring music skill.
Charity videos use emotive images to make people give money.
Narrative videos tells the story.
We looked at two different music videos that have strong stereotypes. They were Ghetto gospel and Beautiful by tu pac and Christina Aguilera.
Ghetto gospel;

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In this shot of ghetto gospel the main stereotype shown is black american men being in a gang. The setting is on the side of a street and it is dark, which is where people may assosiate a gang with being because you wouldnt see them in a nice area or causing trouble when it is light as they would be more likely to get caught. The shots used in this are close ups and wide shots. The wide shot is used so you can see the whole gang and the audience can see what they look like and how they are acting and the close up shots are to see certain facial expressions and things about the gang members.

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In this shot it is going against the main stereotype of a black male in america. In this shot he is a family man and caring and you wouldnt think he was the type of man to get into trouble. I chose this shot because Ghetto gospel shows stereotypes and then goes agaisnt those stereotypes in different parts. The shots used are close ups and cut ins.

The cut in is used to show her body expression and what is on the telly which is also showing that she is being ignored because you see her arguing and shouting and can see her arm expressions but can see the telly is on so the man is watching that. The close ups are used to show facial expressions.

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Another example of this is a scene where he goes to church, you wouldnt assosiate going to church with a member of a gang.






Beautiful;

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In this scene of Beautiful the stereotype is bullies and the way gay people are treated by other people as well at stereotyping gay people. The girls are beating up the other girl because she is a lesbian. This is stereotyping girls to say that they dont like lesbians and will be horrible and treat her different because she is a lesbian. The shots used in this scene are wide shots and close ups.  The wide shot is used to show the girl on the floor being beaten up and with blood all over her face. It is also usesd to show the bullies faces.

The close up is used to show the girls whos being bullied facial expression and to show she had blood all over her face.

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In this scene the stereotypes are girls. It shows the stereotype that all girls want to look like celebritys and be skinny and the lengths that they will go to to be skinny as this girl is anerexic. It could also be showing stereotypes of celebritys being skinny and girls looking up to them and wanting to be like them as well as maybe showing stereotypes of how people make girls feel so they feel the need to do that to themselves. The shots used are wide shot and point of view shot. The wide shot is used so the audience can see the extent of the body damage she has done to herself and for the audience to be able to see clearly that she is anerexic.

The point of view shot is used to show her looking at herself in the mirror to show the audience how much she dislikes herself and how she feels about herself and her body.