Riptide facts#

Question 1

Artist

Answer 1

Vance Joy

Question 2

Year

Answer 2

2013

Question 3

Genre

Answer 3

Folk/indie

Question 4

Produced

Answer 4

Joy, White and Castle

Question 5

Distributed/label

Answer 5

Atlantic Records

Question 6

Key aspect 1 - intertextuality

Answer 6

Horror/Western genre - shown in how women are represented and how shots are filmed to create unease

Question 7

Key aspect 2 - montage editing

Answer 7

Montage editing is used in an overt way - a wide range of contrasting shots juxtaposed (often through hard jump cuts) to convey a large amount of information: which invites the audience to interpret it in their own way

Question 8

Key aspect 3 - links to directors

Answer 8

Wes Anderson (Director) - the construction, shot preferences, recurring characters  and the strong colour palette
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali (artists/directors) - The idea it is like a weird dream and its illogical nature (Un Chien Andalou has an eye-cutting scene which links to the hand stabbing scene)
Sergei Eisenstein (Director)  - the lyrics and intellectual montage format

Question 9

Representation - women

Answer 9

The video offers many interesting examples of the representation of women - consider whether or not the video reinforces a patriarchal world view or is subverting the objectification of women in media. Women in the video are repeatedly presented as an object to be watched