Media Diary - Week 5

Back to the Future

I watched Back to the Future trilogy on the 21st October to celebrate the day that Marty and Doc came to the future. I am already a big fan of this film and watch it on a regular bases for my personal enjoyment. I get a real enjoyment from this film from the acting, the plot, the music and the humor that is used throughout the trilogy. A scene that I get enjoyment from these things is the scene where Marty is playing Johnny B. Goode at the enchantment under the sea dance.
To me Johnny B. Goode is a timeless song with the fast paced beat and the lyrics themselves. However, seeing this being played to a bunch of teenagers in the 50's being really confused when Marty goes on one a bit and a sense of comedy. It adds comedy from the reactions of everybody in the dance and watching Marty go a bit wild on the guitar. 

I would also use this film to get a form a escapism. I would get this because at the beginning of the film you see Marty with the rest of the McFly family and he seem's really unhappy from the way the family is and how his farther, George, runs around for Biff all the time. Eventually he is able to get out of this family by going back in time and changing how his family works therefore he has escaped the family life that he previously had into a new way of family life with a happy mother and farther. This gives me some sort of hope that one day my family life would improve. Obviously not by going back in time but just by letting time solve the problems it's self. As i have a love for 50's and 80's America i use this film to gain information about both of these time period in a way that i can see the slang that was used, the dress sense, the music and just the way that they lived their everyday lives. 

I also feel like i can personally identify myself with Mary McFly because of his fear of rejection. At the beginning of the film we see him auditioning for the chance to perform at his schools dance and after he gets rejected you can see all of his confidence drop. This leads him to feel that he does not want to put himself out there as he is afraid of what the people would say to him about. I can personally identify with this fear as I also want to pursue a music career but i feel too worried about being rejected to put myself out there. 

The 1975 - Love Me music video



The 1975 dropped a music video to their latest song 'Love Me' this week. I find this video very entertaining as I am quite a big fan of this band and feel a connection to all of the member. By watching a video that shows all of the band together being a bit over the top it makes me happy. One party of the video that I find entertaining is during Adam Hann's guitar solo and he is on the main floor and the lead singer Matty Healy is dancing around him. I find this entertaining because it is showing they letting loose and just feeling the music this leads to me being like them, get lost in the music. Not only does this entertain me it also give's me a sense of escape. Escape from the stress of everyday live by going into a trance of the music, the lighting, the shots and the way that the band members are acting themselves. 

I feel like i can personally identify myself to Matty in the video from the way that he gets lost in the music and from his anger towards the way pop culture works that you can see from the lyrics and parts of the video. There are clips in the video where Matty is surrounded by cut outs of people who are seen to be the rulers of pop; this varies from the Harry Styles to Elvis. This shows the views that he has that they are constantly around us are their ego's are built up and it turns to them not thinking about the music only about themselves and the culture that they can preserve. I can identify with this because i have the same view as Matty that artists should just thing about the music. However, this view might have been apposed upon me by Healy. I do identify by the way he acts when he is performing with the strange dance moves and the movement of his body to the music as he is getting lost in it. This is what happens to me when I am listening to music; not only The 1975's music. 

I use this for social interaction as i talk about this video with other fans of the band; talking about their views and sharing mine. Also talking about the band members individually and how they where presented in the video