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1
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Who is Vance Joy?

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An Australian singer-songwriter signed to Atlantic records

2
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What Genre is Vance Joys music?

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His music is usually categorised as indie folk-pop

3
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Who Directed Riptide?

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The video was directed by Dimitri Basil and Laura Gorun

4
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How many copies did Riptide Sell?

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Sold over 1 million copies worldwide

5
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Did Riptide have a high or low budget?

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low budget

6
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does Riptide have many Intertextual references?

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Yes, Intertextual references to other media forms like film

7
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What is the effect of a Montage?

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Lots of juxtaposing shots through hard jump cuts

8
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Does Riptide have a clear, linear narrative?

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Rejects a clearly defined linear narrative - reference surrealist or avant-garde cinema

9
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Lyric interpretation

“I was scared of dentists and the dark”

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Straight forward interpretation with a woman looking “scared” with a metallic contraption in her mouth and followed by a shot of a light swinging in a darkened room.

10
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How is a Billing Block used in the music video?

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The opening shot makes use of cinematic style credits which is graphically similar to a “billing block” or “credit block” which is often seen on film posters or in trailers.

11
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Lyric interpretation

‘This cowboys running from himself’

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Western references

12
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Horror genre iconography

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females repeatedly dragged off screen by unseen forces and a character going missing in a dark graveyard.

13
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References to films

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offer an implied artistic value that transcends the music video form.

14
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Unusual for the genre

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Riptide is relatively unusual both as a music
video and specifically as a text within the indie folk genre in terms of its style, rejection of narrative and lack of spectacle or special effects.

15
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Vance Joy ‘Georgia’ (2015)

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Comparison could be made with a later Vance Joy video Georgia (2015), which follows many more conventions.

16
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Roland Barthes - semiotics

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Signifiers - e.g. the pile of dollar bills which accompanies the line “Oh, all my friends are turning green”.

17
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Polysemy meanings

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Video doesn’t directly imply the meaning of the narrative but instead relies on the audience to build there own interpretations

18
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Steve Neale - Genre theory

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genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation, and change.
indie folk music video genre is dominated by repetition (low-fi videos with bands playing instruments etc.) which is then subverted by Riptide

19
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Scopophilia

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The pleasure in looking at other people’s bodies as (particularly, erotic) objects.

20
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David Gauntlet

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Use Gauntlett to explore complex and diverse representations in the music video
his concept of the pick and mix seems particularly relevant to the style of the video which constructs a range of different stimuli that the audience are invited to interpret. The video rejects singular, straightforward messages and instead invites a variety of different responses and interpretations.

21
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Bell Hooks

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Hooks could be used as a stimulus to explore
the seemingly contradictory messages about gender in the video.
- women running

22
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Objectification

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Women are presented as objects throughout the video

E.G. In one shot a woman with her back to the camera undresses out of her swimming costume

23
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How many views does Riptide have on YouTube?

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Nearly 100 million views on YouTube

24
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How has a low budget influenced Riptide?

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unique style of the music video has an artistic direction

25
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What effect does the ukulele have?

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Gives of a positive vibe