Editing within music videos can be explored which emphasises and draws attention that the shots have been joined together, in particular by using the jump-cut so that the effect is abrupt usually followed by something that the audience is not expecting.
Look at MediaEdu’s Music Video Pre-Production and Music Video Production
The pace of the editing being dictated by the visuals is another area to explore. How many cuts are visible in an average music video?
Representation concepts can be explored by looking at music videos, and magazine articles. Stereotypes are often used and the way these images are used so may suggest to the audience that whole groups of people or ideas should be viewed in a certain way.
Representations in Music
The print media likes to suggest that youth is a stage of being rebellious or in revolt. This could have some historical context with Teddy Boys as the stereotype of rebellious youth in the 1950s, Mods and Rockers in the 60s and the rave ‘e’ drug and club culture of the 1990s.
The image of young people in the past is heavily reliant on the constructed images of films and newsreels of the period.
Two contrasting films, with music by The Who, Quadrophenia, and Tommy construct differing views of young people within a historical context.
Quadrophenia is set in the 60s and is about rebelliousness...
