Anaconda, Gucci Gang, Formation

What is representation :
- How a producer represents an issue, an event, a group of people or a place
- It allows people a way of making sense of the world
self fulfilling prophecy


 Anaconda - Nicki Minaj 
- Representation of Black women - BME (black minority ethnic)
- long shot, revealing costumes which represents black women as being sexualised
- Long shot, high angle - revealing costume, sexualised position
- Mise en scene - Jungle represents black women are wild and uncivilised
- Representation of a stereotypical black womens body
- she adopts the stereotypical housewife role in the kitchen but she subverts it as she is messy and messing about
- Bananas and cream suggests black women have a high sex drive

 Gucci Gang - LIL Pump
- Representation of young Americans
- Mise en scene of Tiger - lil pump shouldn't be messed with - ethnic minorities are aggressive
- Mise en scene - in school shows they are rebelious
- Binary opposition of the Tiger walking down a school shows rebellion 
- Large amounts of cannabis so he's a dealer
- He's in the underclass - wearing gucci, drug dealer
- provides the audience of gratification of escapism
- use of its closed code of language means hidden messages to appeal to certain audience
- gesture of eye role symbolises their disrespect for the teacher
- Many aspects of the video which connotes taking drugs- hallucinogenic
- Binary opposition - Lil Pump putting the weed bag on the teachers shoulder creates criminality and the law and rules


 Formation - Beyonce 






















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