Jo Jo's "Too Little, Too Late" and Duncan James's "Amazed"

These were two of the videos we studied in class. Both would repay study and be a focus for developing your skills in film language, narrative,intertextuality (especially, "Amazed")and representation: ideology (particularly power), class, race, gender and age. Consider also each star's image and the audiences that each video is trying to reach. Try also to apply the two theories by Kress Van Leeuwen and Andrew Goodwin. Consider, too, voyeurism and the representation of the young women in terms of power and the presentation of their bodies and sexuality.





Music Videos - Amazed

Here's another music video to analyse by Madonna: "Like A Prayer".

This music video was criticised by various church groups in the late 1980s. Being risque comes with the territory for artists whose music videos challange the existing boundries of public taste when their videos were made. It would develop your skills to have a go at analysing it for Representation: ideology, class, age, sex, race and with Andrew Goodwin's theory.

Todorov's Theory of Narrative

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