ghost town

Question 1

what band recorded Ghost Town and with what record label?

Answer 1

The Specials, Two-tone.

Question 2

The Specials contained members from diverse what?

Answer 2

diverse, racial backgrounds.

Question 3

Ghost Town’s music video uses the style of what?

Answer 3

British social realist films.

Question 4

what does the video’s low-budget shoot and political nature reflect?

Answer 4

it reflects the codes and conventions of British social realist films.

Question 5

the bleakness of the final shot at the Thames is what?

Answer 5

powerful and nihilistic.

Question 6

the visual style of the music video is borrowed from what?

Answer 6

German expressionist cinema.

Question 7

the cutting between day and night makes the audience feel what and makes the ghost town seem what?

Answer 7

it makes the audience feel disoriented and the ghost town feeling menacing in both day and night.

Question 8

what does the use of the Vauxhall cresta signify?

Answer 8

it signifies the importance of two-tone culture.

Question 9

what has the band being packed into one car signified?

Answer 9

it has signified their togetherness and how there is no racial hierarchies.

Question 10

both the music video’s style and short duration provides what?

Answer 10

it provides a frenetic feel.

Question 11

name some of the camera’s features.

Answer 11

-cantered angles.
-whip pans.
-travelling shots.

Question 12

why is Ghost Town performative?

Answer 12

because it features a performance by the band as they are singing in the car.

Question 13

Ghost Town is an example of how music videos often borrow from what?

Answer 13

how they often borrow from different cultural reference points.

Question 14

what is the preferred reading of the video?

Answer 14

audiences would have seen the protest message at the heart of the video being accepted.

Question 15

what type of identity does ghost town nature?

Answer 15

male, collective identity.

Question 16

what notion does the music video challenge?

Answer 16

it challenges the notion of in-groups and out-groups.

Question 17

how does the music video challenge in-groups and out-groups?

Answer 17

by mixing ethnicities and focusing on social class and bonding of music.