After analysing Hayley Kiyoko’s ‘Cliff Edge’, ‘Girls like girls’ and Garden City Movement’s ‘Move On’, it became obvious there was a reoccurring colour scheme. Throughout all the videos they featured a pink colour palette at some point. This has connotations of femininity which conform t the fact the relationship is between two females. However, it also suggests it is natural as baby pink connotes babies. This could also be perceived to have the representational issue that it suggests the homosexual couple are uneducated and naive.
However, in the music videos there is also another colour pallet that is prominent throughout. To create binary opposition, the colour palette of blue is used. This contrasts the feminine and masculine connotations. This can also create the binary opposition of boys vs girls due to the homosexual theme. Also, this is an issue as it symbolises segregation between females and males, or this could be perceived to be segregation of homosexual couples.
Homosexual characters:
After looking at the characters used in homosexual music videos, it became apparent that it is only gay and lesbian characters that are portrayed. Also, there is more frequent coverage of lesbian couples than gay couples. This could be due to the male gaze theory around lesbian couples and that females also relate more to females. There is a lack of bisexual characters within the music videos, instead, the characters are connoted to be hiding their feelings and eventually overcoming the fear of showing their sexuality.
How has this helped me?
How has this helped me?
As we are planning to sue a colour palette within our music video, the consistent colour palette within music videos that include homosexuality has made it clearer which colour scheme we should use. For example, blue and pink would be good to use surrounding the character’s desires and personalities. We could use a pink colour palate for the artist as she ‘l artist (pink) as she ‘likes girls’ and is female herself, a blue colour palette around the male as he is heterosexual so to conform to the stereotypes would be to represent him as ‘manly’, and we could use a purple colour pallet around the bisexual character to show her desire for both boys (blue) and girls (pink).
Also, in terms of the types of characters used, we will be challenging the typical characters used in indie homosexual music videos as we will be including a bisexual character which hasn’t been featured as frequently. Although we are conforming to the codes and convention by having there be a lesbian couple in the beginning, the male is introduced to the main plot as opposed to the sub plot like in other videos.
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