Representation in music videos

Different genres of music videos contain the different representations that are relevant to that genre (class, race, sex etc.) in different ways. For example, rap videos will commonly include representations of class, either being lower class rapping in rough urban areas or being higher class rolling in cash with fancy expensive items (cars and watches). Also an example in hip-hop/rap videos is that they will make it seem as if the male gender is a lot more dominant, and they will portray women as items or possessions to males, whereas a rock pop video would portray males and females to be equal, and they would be shown in a much more stereotypical manor.

This is an example of a video where the artists are wearing lots of jewellery, which is very stereotypical.

Our music video will portray gender in a very stereotypical way, as the female plays a wife, and the male plays a husband, who is in the army. This is steretypical because it is more common for males to be in the army rather than women. Also it is stereotypical for females to stay at home whilst the male in the household is the worker.


Class will also be portrayed in a very stereotypical way as we are aware of the income soldiers get, therefore we are shooting our video in an average sized house, as filming it in a large house would be very unrealistic as a normal soldier would not be able to afford to live in a stereotypically higher class house.

This is an example of the house we would shoot our video at, as it is stereotypically British, which is what we want as it would not be too expensive with regards to house prices.

The costume, location and props will also be relevant to the reprsentation. Our decissions on the stereotypes we want to represent through costume, location and props and why are included in their own posts.

Will Burnham & Charlie Mower