COMMON MOTIFS OF THE BODY

By

Charlotte and Megue

FRAGMENTATION OF THE BODYFragmentation of the body involves close ups of the body show such as( breasts, eyes, mouth, ears , the

body is then obscured by the objects in the surroundings.

We used the Rihanna video – S&M to portray this, in the pictures below starting from the bottom left, there is a close up of Rihanna eating a strawberry and the background colour is red ,her lipstick is red, her nails are red and the strawberry itself is red , the colour red conveys a sexual image. The centre image shows a close up of Rihanna’s derrière in latex dress up lingerie which also portrays a sexual objectification within the bedroom. The last image is a close up of Rihanna’s breasts the shot emphasise the breasts

area, she is also wearing almost see through clothing which matches her skin.

RITUAL CELEBRATIONS

Ritual celebrations involve parties on the beach, street, black artist are usually happy in the video, but white artist are usually demonist. We chose Chris Brown – Yeah 3x because it involves people from the city dancing in the street and having a good time. We also chose Drake – HYFR which involves drake himself at his Bar mitzvah which is a Jewish ritual celebration.

HORRORThe horror motif involves extreme violence ,Hell ,War, Satan and MonstersWe chose three videos and the first ne was Lil Wayne ft Bruno Mars- Mirror which depicts a image of lil Wayne /Satan on the cross which reflects Jesus on the cross and there is also Satan on the left hand side. Below that image we chose Run this town – Jay-z ft Rihanna and Kanye west, the image portrays The trinity of darkness as you can see they are all dressed in black and there is three of them. Lastly we chose the game- Red nation where it shows people in satanic masks , as you can see the first image and the last image has a similarity where they both have red backgrounds and red symbolizes hell and the devil.

OTHERS FEATURES IN MUSIC VIDEOS

There are various features that are used in music videos such animations, shots , shots into bright light , sun , fire , breaks into the narrative for the artist to sing, clips from the film that songs featured in and cross cutting from narrative to concert footage. We chose Bruno mars- You are amazing which consists of a tape film being used to create an animation of the female in the video, There were many animations used throughout the video. We chose Rihanna’ video – Rude boy to portray the use on animations within music videos. There was also the use of graphics for the words which say “RUDE BOY” behind her playing the drums. (see image below)

MYSTICAL AND MYSTERIOUS

The Mystical and mysterious motif involves the use of gothic mansions , make believe places from the past or fairytale lands and also post apoloyptic.We have chosen the video on the right Kanye west – glory this shows Kanye in a mysterious atmosphere were there are mystical creatures that are half human and half animal and he is standing in the centre of the mysterious place with a halo on top of his head dressed in black. Another example we choose was the Katy Perry video – California Girls this conveys Katy in fairy like location where everything is made out of candy, we can tell that this is make believe.