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With reference to Emeli Sande's 'Heaven', how realistic are the representations offered by the video? In your answer, you should consider the social and cultural context. This essay will be looking over the representations provided by Emeli Sande's Heaven Music Video, full of references to religion, culture and gender. The video focuses on men and women equally and there is no male gaze directed towards women represented in this video. A shot of a woman in a red dress is featured in the beginning of the video and she walks away from the camera refusing to be sexualised. The shot was also repeated at the end of the video. It also focuses on the experiences of men and women by also including lots of close up shots of them. Street life is represented in a montage of people within the people, places and events shot in traditionally working-class district of East London, its shot in Bethnal Green. There is a extreme-close up shot of a middle aged male who is ...

How are media language and intertextuality used in “Burn the Witch” to construct representations of groups, messages and values? Burn the Witch is a song written by the English rock band Radiohead, and the music video is created via stop-motion animation, which pays homage to the British series Trumptonshire and the Wicker Man. The music video gets released the same month as Brexit was announced in June 2016. It seems to be critiquing some of the propaganda put out from the Brexit supporters, while Europe was in the middle of a migrant crisis the moral panic created by the Brexit supporters continuously fueled the hatred towards the minorities. In an article the producer claims that the music video and the song are both an answer to the Brexit deal and increasing hate towards minority groups from the Middle East.   As mentioned earlier the music video pays homage to the series Trumptonshire, which could be a reference to the notorious president of the United Stat...