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How does the music video for Titanium conform to or challenge the EDM genre? Titanium, by David Guetta, is a music video that typically represents a supernatural boy who wakes up at the start of the video in a high school scene that seems to be destructed, which later on in the video is shown to be the boy that had caused this destruction. The video is mainly narrative and shows a very chronological type of music video. In this essay I will be discussing the similarities and differences of the music video to the EDM genre itself. One challenge that the music video has to the EDM genre is that the storyline is about a main character who has caused a destruction and has telekinetic powers shown in the video, whereas the typical EDM genre theme is mainly about love and relationships as shown in ‘We Found Love’ by Rihanna along with Calvin Harris which is about a misleading relationship that includes a relationship that involves drugs and does not work out, which challenges Tita...

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Harrison Emeli Sande - Heaven Exam Question In the music video, representations are shown and seen throughout and are a big part to the way the music video is presented. One example of this is ethnicities and the presentation of different people with different ethnicities which shows the multicultural aspect in the video with a number of both black and white people that are shown in the video. Another example of the kind of representations could be class and status which is presented with the filming in Bethnal Green which is known to be quite a run down place and consists of mainly council houses which is focused in the video in that lots of the pictures are of these run down parts emphasising the poor area and the level of homelessness which is also shown by some of the photo's shown in the video, for example the man sleeping in the doorway clearly shows how run down the area is and the level of homelessness that it brings. The majority of camera shots are focused on ho...