We go over the music video question (10 marks)
Explain how music videos use representations to create difference. Refer to one set pair of music videos you have studied that use different representations to support your answer. The set pairs of music videos are:
Pair 1: Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag (TD) and Avril Lavigne – Sk8ter Boi (SB)
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SB’s representation of a powerful woman with agency contrasts with the stereotypical representation of women solely as love objects in TD
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SB celebrates teenage rebellion and rule-breaking, whereas TD represents a character trying to conform and succeed
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The highly individualistic, status-ridden and competitive world represented in TD contrasts with the representation of the solidarity of an outsider community in SB
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The representations convey the meaning of the songs: celebrating skater culture in SB and commiserating with downtrodden teenagers in TD
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any other representational difference
