Reflection

We began studying film and media this week. There was an assignment to watch a music video, of our choice, and then we had to find ten specific parts of the video about words that we learned on Monday. The first video to be presented was Stubborn Love, by Lumineers. I loved this presentation because I enjoy that song and the music video was beautifully shot. It told a good narrative story that made good use of flashback because it showed how the child moved on from her past. It also had a happy ending with the mom and daughter holding hands and happy which left a good impact on the viewer and made me enjoy the song even more. Then, With Ur Love, by Cher Lloyd, was presented which showed an interesting video of girls pulling parts out of a guy that they enjoyed to create one man that they all loved. I wasn't very interested in the video for that reason, but the presenter did a good job in pointing out all aspects of the video. Jurassic 5 was the next group, in their music video for the song Influence they used long shots of all the artists rapping which helped show the community they lived in.

The next day we saw two more presentations. One of them was the song Words I Never Said, by Lupe Fiasco. This was a fantastic music video because it had clips of things that were happening in the world, mixed in with a narrative about Fiasco acting out in society and getting put down for it. The song has a lot of truth to it and the music video helped to show the truth because it combined the audio with a visual, only helping to increase the depth of the words. Finally, M.I.A. was shown singing her song Bad Girls. The video was used to show girls in Morocco driving cars the way they do in their home country. M.I.A. wanted to show how their lives are and that girls aren't put down in that country like the stereotypes say they are. There was good use of mise-en-scene because the presenter paused at one point and it showed a girl riding a horse which symbolizes old times and stereotypes and then behind her were girls driving girls like they do these days, contrary to popular belief. All of the presenters did a fantastic job in showing all points that we learned about and I can't wait to continue more next week because it's really helpful for me to learn the terms.