ESSAY

Genre

GENRE

 

Genre is a French word meaning ‘type’ or ‘kind’, generally seen as a fusion of semantic (stylistic) and syntactic (substantive) features that become conventional to audiences over time. When considering my music video Hey There Delilah by The Plain White T’s in is categorised within the genre of Alternative Rock. Firth, 1988 argued that music videos can be characterized by three broad typologies: Performance, Narrative, and Conceptual. These types describe the form and content selected by the director or artist to attract viewers and to convey a direct or indirect message. They can act as extended advertisements, as popular art forms or as self-referential filmic texts. When observing the music video Hey There Delilah it would be classed as a narrative based music video, telling a personal story from the artist’s perspective. Giving out a message to the audiences indirectly to ‘not lose the people you hold dear’ through the flashbacks created with the contrast in black and white overlay edits to the vivid colours. Goodwin’s music video analysis puts forward that Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics e.g. stage performance in rock video, dance routine for boy/girl pop band. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting. Finally the demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work a visual style. The Plain White T’s and the music video I have created follows these concepts due to the artist having a particular style which is followed through being; high street, every day clothes contrasting the genre pop which is fashion focused. Furthermore, there is a strong relationship between the lyrics and the video being illustrative and amplifying the emotions the artist is trying to portray. This is shown through the extreme close ups of the males use and feathered shots of the female.

Hey There Delilah Narrative

The video 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White T's uses the to formats of narrative and performance, engaging the audiences to want to listen to more due to being able to relate to the lyrics of the song. The song is made up of a personal situation with the lead singinger and uses split screen as well as dream like city scenes to have a sense of awe and wonder. Five years ago, Delilah DiCrescenzo, now 24, met Tom Higgenson, the lead singer for the band Plain White T’s. Tom was “smitten” with Delilah at the time of the encounter and vowed to write a song about her in the future. Well, fast forward 5 years and “Hey There Delilah”, although not a very new song, has surprisingly and suddenly taken the world by storm.

Lyric Analysis

Lyricsanalysis from arnellgrace

G325 - 1B

AS MEDIA BLOG LINK

This is a link to my AS Blog which will aid me in answering Section A, Question 1A & Question 1B...

http://gracearnellg321.blogspot.co.uk/

G325 - Question 1A

POSTMODERNISM DEFINITION

POSTMODERNISM

pəʊstˈmɒdəˌnɪz(ə)m/

noun

noun: postmodernism; noun: post-modernism

A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.