Representation Task - Sexuality - Macklemore - Same Love
The music video for Macklemore's Same Love represents homosexual men both positively and negatively. It presents homosexuality negatively by using homophobia. Furthermore, it shows hetrosexual men being horrible to the homosexual couple. It also shows the difficulty of being gay; the music video uses dark and gloomy scenes when the gay character is upset. This is a visual code.
However, the music video uses another visual code when representing homosexuality. This is using sunny scenes when the character is happy. It also shows that gay people are just like straight people and can find true love. The fact the couple get together at a young age and are still together when they're pensioners proves it was true love.
Another visual code would be that at the the beginning the scenes were out of focus. The first scene that is in focus was of young children on a bike ride and then on a nature walk. The viewer later finds out the homosexual character was in fact one of the young children, THis is representing sexuality positively. It shows gay people are the same as straight people.
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