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Dream Dizzee Rascal Music Video


 Representation:

Within the music video Dizzee represents all the characters through puppets and consists of props only leaving him and a white elderly woman as the main protagonists. He also includes cliché representations as he includes puppets with ginger hair to portray Scottish people, white puppets as the police and black puppets with urban clothing to represent the youth etc. The elderly lady and Dizzee are binary opposites of each other and she is seen in a very polite, upperclass and wealthy woman of the British society whereas Dizzee is seen as part of the youth, lower class and poor. This is all due to their clothing and body language throughout the video- with the woman having perfect body posture and clean clothing yet Dizzee is ‘bopping’ and his clothing is scruffy. However despite the lady not playing a particular big role in the video, some of her actions may begin build questions for example when the police come into the scene at the begin, was she responsible of sending the police in? Yet her facial expressions give a different impression that doesn’t like the police but won’t encourage stopping them.

Camera Shots, Effects & Lighting:

Although there is not a wide range of camera shots used in the video there are still one or two different ones used. One being mid shots, this was used to show his body actions when he was rapping and moving throughout the video, this is also to engage the audience in the words he is saying to get his message across more clearly. However full body shots are also used to acknowledge what is going on in the background and pay full attention to the props used and the outfits that are being worn. The props are used to build an urban setting yet is placed in an suburban atmosphere being the old ladies piano. The lighting causes the colours used in the video to seem faded however this adds effect being the message of the music video being set to about Dizzees past, the dull colours give a sense of back in the day. The change between scenes in the video show a build up as towards his dream as well as how his success took him off the streets.

Ethnicity:

Ethnicity is shown as stereotype typical to a certain extent in the music video. It is shown as equal due to the inclusion of both black and white puppets instead of their being a predominant of one race however the representations behind the puppets are unequal and also stereotypical, the white is portrayed through the character of the police instigating that they hold the power in the video which is then enhanced in the actions of the officer beating up the puppets. With the black puppets being dressed in gangsta clothing and graffitiing the walls they reinforce the stereotype of black teenagers being out of control and rebellious towards society, especially if they are from the poor urban side of the uk. Disciplinary is shown as non changing through the years in the action of the police puppet. The use of the puppets is to reflect on the words within his lyrics that he is trying to get across.


Theory links:

Certain aspects of Dizzees music video relates to a theory introduced by a guy named, Paul Gilroy, who links representations in media these days to post colonialism.


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