Black by Dave Dave was born David Orobosa Omoregie on the 5th of June in 1998 in England to Edo immigrant parents. The music video itself is a narrative\experimental video as it shows a variety of different scenes where they show different scenarios which when put together tell an overall narrative to the story. The video was released in February of 2019 around the time of major black lives matter movements, the video then became all the more prominent with the murder of George Floyd. The video provides an insight into how it feels like to be black in a modern world society which can be inferred by the lyrics for example, "The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice, a kid dies, the blacker the killer the sweeter the news", this clearly highlights the discrimination that black people face from the media and how they are portrayed within such platforms. The opening title is a simplistic design of which i would like to try and replicate within my own music video. The camerawor...
Media Language through the Camera One major form of media is film where the director portrays their message to an audience that is watching their creation. This will breakdown into three main sections which include Basic camera shots, Basic camera angles and Basic Camera movement. Basic Camera Shots These include: Extreme long shot\Establishing shot: This is an exterior shot which establishes the time and location of the scene in turn providing the audience with important information about the setting or the plot. Long shot: This will usually follow an establishing shot which allows the audience to see the character from head to toe which shows their relation to the environment in the scene. Mid shot:View of a character from the waist up which provides the audience with information about the character such as their motivations and their interactions . This typically follows a long shot from a prior scene. Two shot: This is a shot with two characters in the frame to ...
Why study the media The media in our society is ever growing and changing to new horizons and in turn increasing its influence and hold over everyone especially the younger generation of whom are the easiest to influence. Though before we may have received our information and news from somewhat “trustworthy” sources such as newspapers and newsletters however in the growing digital age everyone can now publish their own opinions and sway people to their side which could be good under the right circumstances however like everything it can lead to controversy. I believe we should study the media because of its growing hold over our society. For example, consider the fact that long since gone diseases in our developed cities such as measles have been popping back up because many people believed that the commonly used vaccines would lead to autism despite there being increase in cases of autism due to the vaccines. They believed this because of one article published online eluding t...
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