1. Unit 29 – Music Video Production
Music Video Analysis Worksheets
Music Video Analysis - Gender Roles
Song Title: what’s my name
Artist: Rihanna
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with
as much detail as possible.
1. What are the men/women doing? (Dancing, sitting, swimming, etc.)
She iswalking in the street
Flirting with a guy
Sitting on a chair
In a shop
2. How are the men/women dressed? How much skin is revealed?
Rihanna has most of her legs showing and she also has lot for skin on show. She also has her
behind on show
The man (drake)is wearing very casual clothing.
3. Are there more, fewer, or the same number of men as women?
There are the same number of men and women there is only 1 man and 1 woman
4. Describe the body language of the men/women: are they sitting, standing, gyrating,
Mugging, etc.?
Very close together there is a lot of close contact faces very close together, they are
standing next to each other
5. Do the men/women have power? How do you know?
They both have the same amount of power they both find each other as attractive so they
like each other at first sight. But is has a stereotype in it because the man goes over the
woman.
6. What’s the message of the song?
The meaning of the video is that he sees a good looking woman who he wants to go out
with but he does not know who she is.

2. Unit 29 – Music Video Production
Music Video Analysis Worksheets
7. What type of music is the song?
R&B
Music Video Analysis - Race
Song Title: champion
Artist: chipmunk ft. Chris brown
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with
as much detail as possible.
1. What races do you see represented?
African American
2. Are there any dark skinned women shown? How many?
Non are shown in the video it is mainly about how the two guys past life was like it is not
really a song about their modern-day life
3. What is the race of the person at the focus of the video?
African American
4. What are the black/Latino/Asian/white/Native American/Pacific Islander people
Doing?
They are on a box in the middle of nowhere
On a rode in nowhere
Inside a ditch
Talking directly at the listeners
5. What’s the message of the song?
The message of the song is about the singers getting to the top stated off I a bad place
where every one where telling them that they would never accomplish anything but then it
shows at the end that they were champions and accomplished their dreams

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Music Video Analysis Worksheets
6. What type of music is the song?
Music Video Analysis - Sexuality
Song Title: wrecking ball
Artist: Miley Cyrus
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with
As much detail as possible.
1. Describe any sexually explicit body language:
She was naked on a wrecking ball throughout the video. She was also licking a sledge
hammer which is supposed to resemble a sexual act. Even when she was not naked
in it she still had very little clothing.
2. Who is more sexualized – men or women? Both?
The woman is the only person in the video because she is trying to say that she is alone. But
it is still male oriented because she is on a work site with men’s boots on while holding a
sledge.
3. Are there sexually explicit lyrics or messages?
No it does not really have any sexually messages in the lyrics the meaning of the song is that
she has had a bad break up and she feels hurt about it.
4. How are subjects of the music video dressed?
At the begin she is wearing her underwear with male work boots on to symbolises she is
done with being pushed around.
5. Describe the relationships between the men and women: Are they long or short term?
Casual or serious? It is a broken up relationship that is why she is alone in the music video .

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Music Video Analysis Worksheets
6. What’s the message of the song?
The song is about her trying to break down a wall that her boyfriend has put up the
wrecking ball is a metaphor about how she was trying to escape from their relationship.
7. What type of music is the song?
Pop
Music Video Analysis - Materialism
Song Title: billionaire
Artist: Bruno mars
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with
As much detail as possible.
1. Describe the products that are highlighted in the video: (cars, jewellery, clothes, etc.)
In the video it has Bruno mars driving in a sports car. Also he buys stranger’s stuff that the
want including spray paint and a Skate board. He also listens to a song with a pair of beats.
Also there are mopeds.
2. Are any brand names shown?
No brand names were used in the music video
3. How is wealth defined in the video?
Wealth is shown as buying things for himself and other people it has been showed as a
positive replantation. It shows that being wealthy make him and everyone around him
happiness which is not the case in real life.
4. Are products mentioned in the song lyrics?

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Music Video Analysis Worksheets
It does have a type of magazine called Forbes which is a rich person’s magazine. It also has a
Mercedes car brand there was also a few other different products mentioned but not
anymore with brand names
5. What’s the message of the song?
The message of the song is somebody who wants to become rich in some way. It also
describes the different things that he will do if he was a billionaire and shows how he would
spend it .
6. What type of music is the song?
It is an R&B genre of music
Music Video Analysis - Violence
Song Title:toy soldiers
Artist: Eminem
Directions: As you closely watch the music video, answer the following questions with
as much detail as possible.
1. Describe any violent lyrics in the song:
In the lyrics it says that the battle this shows that in his life there is always people fighting
and killing each other. Another line in the song is “ it was never my object for someone to
get killed” this shows that there is death in this video he being strait forward about that .
2. Describe any violent body language:
There is somebody lay on a hospital bed covered in blood with doctors around him doing an
operation this shows that this is a life or death operation. Also Eminem hits the wall in
anger.

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Music Video Analysis Worksheets
3. Describe any violent actions or weapons that are shown:
He hits a wall. Also you can see a man getting shot in the video
4. Describe any self-mutilation or violence:
There is no self-mutilation but there is a lot of blood n Eminem friend’s body . Also you can
see somebody getting shot in the video
5. What’s the message of the song?
The message of the song is him talking about his friend’s murder and showing of his feeling
about it in a form of a song
6. What type of music is the song?
Rapping