Joe Leggett's Media Blog

Imagine Dragons are a popular American Indie-Rock band who have excelled greatly since 2011. They consist of four members including 30 year old, Dan Reynolds, who is the main vocalist. The band won record of the year in 2014 for their single, Radioactive. Since then, their success has continued and they have 25 million singles in 2017. One of the band's main music videos is for their song 'On Top of the World'. It uses both narrative and thematic settings throughout the video. It is made satirical by exploiting American conspiracy theories. There is a large scene in the video in which it shows the moon landing to be fake in a comedic style. The video also shows diversity and a togetherness of the community by using different social classes and different cultures as the astronauts who 'go to space'. However, it is a little bit contradictory as all of them are white males. However, in terms of culture, there are clear binary opposites amongst the star vehicles. ...

Young people are stereotyped as many things in many different media forms. One example of this is a a character form a a TV show named Pretty Little Liars. Ashley Benson's character named Hanna Marin is a typical teenage girl. She goes shoplifting with her friend and steals a lot of makeup which she wears all of the time. She is obsessed with fashion and handbags. She also keeps a lot of secrets within her friend group which is something that young people are often stereotyped to do. She seems to be very fond of social media and texting her friends too. Also, politicians are stereotyped as typical old people. Most old people are statistically old people and statically middle class but the common basis for all politicians is now that they are all old and middle class. Of course, this means that they are directly portrayed to all be right-wing and evil too. This is not the case. The guy on the left is actually right-wing and evil, but he is younger than the guy on the right who ...