Beth Clifton

  Textual Analysis of 3 videos   Good 4 U – Olivia Rodrigo ·        Narrative is: Presumably has had a breakup. She becomes rude to everyone (bumping into people, throwing things on floor). She then buys bleach and sets his house on fire. By the end she has become fully crazy.  ·        Shot duration: much longer, usually lasts at least one line and is on average around 5 seconds long but some last up to 20 seconds. In the intro she has a continuous shot of about 15 seconds with 1 second flickers of other shots every 5 seconds. Shot duration gets shorter in the bridge with consecutive 1, 2 and 3 second shots. ·        Balance of narrative and performative elements: Tons of references to Jennifer’s body and The Princess Diaries. At the start of the video she is presumably acting like Lana in The Princess Diaries, a bitter mean girl but relatively innocent. As the video goes on there i...

  Kristen Smith 9130 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, California   To whomever this may concern,   I am a Media Studies A-Level student at Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge, Kent in England. As part of our coursework we are instructed to create a music video to an existing song and I was wondering if I would be able to have consent to use Olivia Rodrigo’s song ‘Good 4 U’ in my music video. This will be posted privately to YouTube and will only be shared with my teachers, examiners and classmates. I will not be making any profit from it or using the song to gain any kind of income.   I hope you consider and I look forward to hearing back from you.   Beth Clifton

I have chosen Good 4 U by Olivia Rodrigo. One reason is that it would be easy to link intertextuality. For example, I have chosen to reference the movies Legally Blonde and John Tucker Must Die because these are 2 films where the main characters are dumped by a boy and are angry and upset about it, which is what the song is about. I've also chosen this song because it has a very clear message and is easy to create a narrative from. It's also an upbeat song which leaves room for plenty of varied shot types and durations.  I have chosen Olivia Rodrigo because she is the same age and gender as the actor in my video so the lip-syncing will look realistic.

 

  video won't upload to YouTube, still trying but here's the link to some slides that were in the video: https://wokgs-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/15cliftonb_wealdgs_org/EZPVeK9lgW9Gnp_g78mwYT8ByiXbXRiJWt4bnIVBz1CLYA?e=elQq0a

 

  Universal Music Group (UMG)   ·        The biggest music company in the world ·        Founded in September 1934 ·        As of 2018, its revenue is $7.1 billion ·        80% of it is owned by the French media company, Vivendi, and 20% is owned by the Netherlandish company, Tencent-Led Consortium ·        One of the ‘big three’ record labels, along with Sony music and warner music group ·        They own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audio-visual content in more than 60 countries. ·        Some artists signed to UMG include Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Justin Bieber ·        UMG’s headquarters are located in the Netherlands and California ·  ...