Five key questions (by Jimmy Vera)

 

1. Who created this message?

    The message was created by Eddie Vedder, vocalist of the well-known grunge band "Pearl Jam".


2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

   
     The images of this video are very moving even if you have not seen the movie to which they belong to, "Into the wild". Sean Penn, the director of the movie, asked Eddie Vedder personally to compose the whole original soundtrack for the movie and so he did. The sequence of images showing landscapes, animals and nature in general are the most attractive features of the video, along with the fact that the movie is based on a true story. (For further information, read the description of the video).


3. How might different people understand this message differently?

    As John Lennon clearly explained in his song "Imagine, there are different types of people, and among them, we can find those who are dreamers and those who are not. Cristopher McCandless (the main character of the movie) was a dreamer, someone who questioned why people is so bad to each other so often, and someone brave enough to give up to his money (and give most of it to charity), material possessions in general and to his whole thus far well constructed life. Some people who are slaves of possessions and material goods and money might think that this guy was crazy and that he didn't know anything about life, but I prefer to think that we can all live from the simple things that life gives us just as he did until his last day on earth.


4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from this message?

     The main value I can distinguish is consistency, to be able to act according to your values and ideals.


5. Why is this message being sent?

     This message is being sent to criticise our sick and materialistic society. Most people in the world are slaves of money and tend to act in order to achieve big amounts of it, often harming other people. The sense of "common good" has been lost and I believe that this song was created so we can somehow restore it.

PS: Those of you who haven't watched the movie, I strongly recommend you to do it.

Wake me up when September ends- Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjNJmwwf7QA

1.       Who created this message?

The message was created by Green Day and the song was written by Billie Joe Armstrong, the vocalist of the band.

2.       What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

The creative techniques used to attract my attention were the story of the couple, a lot of drama and strong scenes that shows the cruelty in the wars. Also, the melody of the song begins very emotional and melancholy and it ends very loud to show the change in the story.

3.       How might different people understand this message differently?

I think there are many people who don’t understand how much you can lose in a war. I mean, it’s not just lose the war, is more than that. In the video, the protagonist took a risk for his country, but he knew that he could die and with that, lose the love of his life. Many people understand the message like something necessary for the nation, but they can’t see that is a risk to their lifes and affect other lifes too.

4.       What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?

Basically, I think in this message are represented love, loyalty and hope. However the most important point of view is “say no to the war” because is just damage for all of us.

5.       Why is this message being sent?

This message is being sent to create conscious about our ideologies and make us think about if we really want a world like this.  

Shape of my Heart

By Sting .

Five Key Questions

1.- Who created this message?

This message was created by Sting but the melody is from Dominic Miller his guitarist.

2.- What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

The Video of the song dont use to much colors or spaces only appears Sting and Dominic Miller.
In my opinion the melody is very sweet and in the same time very sad but the words of the song get deep into my heart .

3.- How might different people understand this message differently ?

Well maybe some people interpret the words of the song like a form to find someone else is not only play cards, is find hope in another place or person and that make sense to play and look the things that we do and happen or maybe a sad or love song.

4.- What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?

The song say  there are many things we dont appreciate there are more things we need to discover isnt very important play cards and win there are other points of the life we need to value.

5.- Why is this message being sent ?

Is a metaphor of playing cards. In my opinion is being sent because money isnt very important for ours lifes there are other things like love faith and hope you can find in this world, that things make happy your heart.

Five Key Questions (by Sebas Manrox)

Hi, guys! I'm glad to participate in this blog. I think it's time to share new music and new ideas about the course and the contents...


Now, my video...




The video I choosed is a song by Johnny Clegg called "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", performed in one of the 46664 Concerts realized in some cities of the world. This one was based in Tromsø, Norway, on 11th June 2005. Check the link to know more about those concerts.


Do you wanna check the lyrics? Here they are!



Five Key Questions about the song: 

1.- Who created this message?

The message was created by Johnny Clegg, a South African singer and composer.

2.-What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

The lyrics about future life, good and bad things about it and the Zulu words used in.

3.-How might different people understand this message differently?

This song is one of the most popular and representative song in All-Time South African rock history. The mixture between Zulu and English languages, and the mix of black and white-skinned people in the original band (Savuka) made in the context of Apartheid was historically and socially attractive to South African people. But in countries like Chile, Germany or Colombia, where politics like Apartheid was neves applied and Zulu is a strange language, the message may not be understood and comprehended totally,  

4.-What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?

In my opinion, the most important value in the message is the care of the children. This song, specially, was wrotten by Johnny when his son, Jesse, was born. In the lyrics, he gives a welcome to his son and also some advices of the cruel, crazy and beautiful world when he was born. 

5.-Why is this message being sent? 

Because, I think, Johnny feels the need of advice and protect his son of the world situations and the human behavior.

Well, I hope you liked the song and my reflection. See you soon!

Manrox.

PD: Ayeye Jesse Mfana is a sentence spoken in Zulu. It can means Celebrate, little Jeese. Jeese is the name of Johnny's son, who is now also a musician.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgT9zGkiLig 

 

Incubus “Drive”

1.- Who created this message?

Drive was created and composed by the vocalist Brandon Boyd.

2.-What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

I think that the video have many visual and artistic effects, and in the letters of the song there are many things that  you can feel identified with some stages that you live in your life. These things are attractive for the people that watch the video o listening this song.

3.-How might different people understand this message differently?

People can understand this song as a love song, or they can understand this song as a message that you must resing to the life that you have, And  don’t have fight for your dreams.

4.-What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?

In this song  have a specif message that is the perserverance in the life, this song talk about the fears and the dificult things that some times you have to live and overcome, this song try to say that you are the creator of your decisions and your future, or the “Driver” in the route of the life.

5.-Why is this message being sent? 

I think that this song  was created for send a message,specifically to young people that the life have many difficulties, and some times is very hard to be persistent, but if you try and you have the strength in the things that you want and you need, always the things will be alright.

Five Key Questions.

1. Who created this message? 
This song is recorded by Michael Jackson and written and composed by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett (Americans songwriters).

2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
The most creative technique that I think he used are images. The principal idea of the song it's about to make a change, and for that he used images of important events that happened in the world. The images that attract my attention was the Ethiopian famine, where people don't have what to eat or where to live and that makes us to think about a really good change and needed

3. How might different people understand this message differently?
I think that there's a lot of people that just think in their-self and their problems and they don't care about people that really need help. Or people who think that their problems are the most important in the world and they don't want to see the other reality in the other side of the world.

4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
Lifestyles that are represented in this message are the Ethiopian famine, homelessness, poverty, civilizations at war, fighting for peace and for a better world. I think in this video there isn't lifestyles and point of view omitted, because it's shown the most important realities in the world.

5. Why is this message being sent?
I think that Michael Jackson wanted to show us realities that we usually don't want to see them, and all this people really need a change in their lifes and, of course, to make a change in their realities, we must make a change in our lifestyles, that's why the message of this song repeats a lot of times that we must to look al each other and realized that our problems are nothing compared with the others.

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Song : Where is the love ? ( Black Eyed Peas )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc&ob=av2n 

1.   Who created this message?

             The group called Black Eyed Peas

2.   What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

Signs of questions in the video…It operates as if inviting us to ask ourselves what are we doing well. What are we doing wrong? Show this picture constantly provokes who see the video, to reflect and think about each issue being raised: discrimination, violence, terrorism, inequality, and so on.

3.    How might different people understand this message differently?

It can be people who think that the video and the song just try to criticize the society in a negative way, they may think that the video only shows the bad things that happen in the world.

Others may think that the video makes a critique of society, but  a constructive criticism, calling us to improve things that are not well and build a better world, where most important is the love,  the equality and  the peace.

4.   What values , lifestiles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from , this message?

The values ​​represented are respect for diversity and tolerance.

We also have two very opposing lifestyles: the first is a lifestyle without hatred, violence, discrimination, death, terrorism, fears and basically, following to God to go in the right direction and teach others to live in peace.
The other style of life, is one in which people live surrounded by lies, inequality, selfishness, without respect to values, without faith, far from God, and constant war.

Basically we have a vision in which the right is to live in love and giving love to the world,  and the other is about living full of care, following a system that can sees the  peace as a valid way to live and not wanting to find a way to change what is wrong with the world.

5.   Why this message being sent?

              I believe that music permit to express ideas, thoughts and visions of the world.  I think this message is sent to the call the attention of the recipient and that this appeal to wonder ,what is right and what is wrong with the world?. The most important thing is that it proposes to the recipient to change the negative and bad things of the world and look for a life better and full of love and peace.