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![Stay in the shadows
Cheer at the gallows
This is a round up
This is a low flying panic attack
Sing a song on the jukebox that goes
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live
Red crosses on wooden doors
And if you float you burn
Loose talk around tables
Abandon all reason
Avoid all eye contact
Do not react
Shoot the messengers
This is a low flying panic attack
Sing the song of sixpence that goes
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live
We know where you live
Red crosses on wooden doors – Plague
And if you float you burn – If you float in water you are a witch and
got burned at stake.
Shoot the messengers – The idea of secrecy and people who tell
get punished.
Sing the song of sixpence - "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-
known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th
century. Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is
known that a 16th-century amusement was to place live birds in a
pie, as a form of entremets. An Italian cookbook from 1549
(translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe:[3] "to
make pies so that birds may be alive in them and fly out when it is
cut up" and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John
Nott.[1][4] The wedding of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV of
France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “
Loose talk around the table - “Loose talk” is conversation that is
“careless and indiscreet.” The authority figure of the song wishes to
limit such talk, which threatens their regime; anyone who doesn’t
watch his or her words will be labelled a witch and be punished
accordingly. When the US entered WWII, a series of security
posters were created to keep the public in check, many of which
featured the slogan:“ Loose talk can cost lives.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/burnthewitch-200115111124/85/Burn-the-witch-15-320.jpg)
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- 2. CAGED Class – Oppositionof class such as the Mayor coming for a high economic background shown by his clothes and gold jewellery compared to the villagers shown in the video with no signs of high class wearing just regular clothing such as the farming scene shown in 2 minutes would represent a subculture that would not have great wealth.
- 3. CAGED Age - Allof the characters in the video seem to resemble the same age of adults who are playing their roles within the village. Their age is determined by their features and height due to not being able to tell due to them being characters and not real people. Such as the smaller figures being a younger age.
- 4. CAGED Gender – Bothgenders are shown throughout the video. However the video does display some gender opposition in the way it is a young well dressed male who is being proclaimed as a witch when the stereotype of a witch would be old female wearing all black.
- 5. CAGED Ethnicity - Radiohead’ssinister, Wicker Man- esque video for new song “Burn the Witch” is a comment on the refugee crisis in Europe, its stop-motion animator has revealed. Virpi Kettu, who worked on the project alongside director Chris Hopewell, has confirmed that the band wanted to use their much-hyped release to draw attention to paranoia, anger and Islamophobia sparked by the “blaming of different people…the blaming of Muslims”.
- 6. CAGED Disability – Allthe characters are able bodied. This could link to the stereotype that disability's are ignored in society due to the lack of representation.
- 7. Context behind thesong The song "Burn the Witch" was released on 3 May 2016 as the lead single from the album A Moon Shaped Pool. Radiohead developed the song for over a decade, first working on it during the sessions for their fourth album, Kid A (2000). It features a string section playing col legno battuto, producing a percussive sound, arranged by the guitarist Jonny Greenwood. "Burn the Witch" was accompanied by a stop-motion animated music video that pays respect to the 1960s British children's television programme Camberwick Green and the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man. Some critics interpreted the lyrics and video as a warning against groupthink and authoritarianism. The song received positive reviews and was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
- 8. The video The videodepicts mob rule in a rural community. During the video, an inspector is greeted by a town mayor and invited to see a series of unsettling sights, culminating in the unveiling of a wicker man. The mayor urges the inspector to climb into the wicker man, whereupon he is locked inside as a human sacrifice and the wicker man is set on fire. As the flames gather, the townspeople turn their backs and wave goodbye to the camera. After the song ends, the inspector escapes among the trees. Pitchfork interpreted "Burn the Witch" as a criticism of authority and a warning against groupthink, expressing a "deep sense of dread and skepticism". The Guardian felt it addressed mass surveillance or the threat to open discussion posed by the self-policing users of social media.
- 9. The video Pitchfork writerMarc Hogan suggested that the use of the Trumpton Trilogy style in the video, which portrays an idyllic, crime-free rural Britain, reflects the rhetoric of family values used by right-wing politicians such as Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and members of the UK Independence Party. Animator Virpi Kettu, who worked on the music video, interpreted the song as a comment on the European migrant crisis and scapegoating of Muslims. The visual style of the video was deliberately lighter in tone than the song, as Radiohead "wanted the video to contrast with what they're playing and to wake people up a bit." After the election of US President Donald Trump on 8 November 2016, Yorke tweeted lyrics from the song and linked to its music video, interpreted as a criticism of Trump's rightwing policies.
- 10. The Trumptonshire Trilogy(1966 - 1969) Trumpton is a stop-motion children's television series from the producer Gordon Murray. First shown on the BBC from January to March 1967, it was the second series in the Trumptonshire trilogy, which comprised Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley. Trumptonshire was created using stop motion animation and actual 3D scaled down models. The entire trilogy consisted of 39 x 15-minute episodes. All 39 episodes were first broadcast on BBC1, airing before the midday news. The original footage had to be located – some footage was found in the family's attic and some deep in the archives of BBC Worldwide in Perivale. It was originally released 3 January – 28 March 1967. The puppets are designed to be around 20 cm high. BBC Studios and Post Production's Digital Media Services team remastered all 39 episodes of the Trumptonshire Trilogy in 2011 for DVD release, cleaning, scanning and digitally restoring the film footage frame by frame
- 11. Type of musicvideo Narrative; during the video, an inspector is greeted by a town mayor and invited to see a series of unsettling sights, culminating in the unveiling of a wicker man. The mayor urges the inspector to climb into the wicker man, whereupon he is locked inside as a human sacrifice and the wicker man is set on fire. As the flames gather, the townspeople turn their backs and wave goodbye to the camera. After the song ends, the inspector escapes among the trees.
- 12. Connotations Diegetic bird singing-Cartoonish Fade in and from black transitions Red Cross on doors links to plague A noose for public hanging Society is being obsessed and judged by an outsider and at the end he is burnt Trumpton style animation Intertextual link to 1984 totalitarianism Links to Wikerman movie Idea of a cult Historical links to old torture methods Paganism - burning man festival The speared boar pub
- 13. Connotations The video beginsand ends with a blue jay singing, and if you’re piqued by the political element of the video – perhaps this could be alluding to the fact that social media has played such a huge presence in this particular political climate since this bird resembles the Twitter logo, or this may be a reference to @Trumpton_UKIP. Both Lynch works present idealized America as a dreamland with a dark, occult underbelly masked by conventionalism and hypocrisy. Radiohead’s video also presents Puritan America (and thus idealized America with its Puritan work ethic and values) as a hypocritical monstrosity, yet foisted upon the global stage as the “model village.”
- 14. Camera work Burn thewitch shows various angles such as midshot and wide angle shots however it is an animation therefore the camera is not creating the angles the animator is. Such as the close up of the figure when he is in trouble is used for dramatic effect however is not implemented or produced in the same way as a real life film or series may be.
- 15. Stay in theshadows Cheer at the gallows This is a round up This is a low flying panic attack Sing a song on the jukebox that goes Burn the witch Burn the witch We know where you live Red crosses on wooden doors And if you float you burn Loose talk around tables Abandon all reason Avoid all eye contact Do not react Shoot the messengers This is a low flying panic attack Sing the song of sixpence that goes Burn the witch Burn the witch We know where you live We know where you live Red crosses on wooden doors – Plague And if you float you burn – If you float in water you are a witch and got burned at stake. Shoot the messengers – The idea of secrecy and people who tell get punished. Sing the song of sixpence - "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well- known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th-century amusement was to place live birds in a pie, as a form of entremets. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe:[3] "to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and fly out when it is cut up" and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.[1][4] The wedding of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “ Loose talk around the table - “Loose talk” is conversation that is “careless and indiscreet.” The authority figure of the song wishes to limit such talk, which threatens their regime; anyone who doesn’t watch his or her words will be labelled a witch and be punished accordingly. When the US entered WWII, a series of security posters were created to keep the public in check, many of which featured the slogan:“ Loose talk can cost lives.”