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Genre & Representation

Representation of Depression

The stereotypical representation of 'Depression' is someone looking mopey, sad and 'Depressed'. Wearing black clothes, to hide themselves from everyone else, and to hide their emotions. They don't like to be seen or be heard. These day's depression can be so much different, which is why I challenged the idea of stereo typical 'Depression' The girl in my music video, is clearly suffering from a death of a best friend. She choses to mope and be sad a lot throughout the video, but in the end shows that she has the inner strength to be happier, and fights it. So she is wearing bright clothing and happier about the memories.

Representation of Birdy

Birdy is an artist is predominantly sticks to writing songs based on the 'Indie Pop' Genre, she writes song mostly about Sadness or Sad events that have happened in her life. In her music videos she doesn't show the stereotypical 'Sad' music video, she has bright colours on and shoots during the day, and in positive 'happy' areas. This is what I have done in my music video, I have shown the stage of my protagonist being 'Sad' remembering her best friend, but she gets happier and remembers the good times. Which is what birdy does in her music videos.

Representation of Women

In most music videos the representation of women is negative, they can be seen as the weaker gender, and are dependent  on the other half being men. In this music video I decided to show the girl is weak without her best friend, but she soon realizes how strong she is.

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