Michael Joseph Jackson, known as the ‘King of Pop’ was an American singer, songwriter, recording producer, dancer and actor born on August the 29 1958 and died on June 25 2009 at age 50, which left a great impact on popular culture. Jackson’s music videos are widely popular to all ages of people due to least amount of explicit language and actions. Through the discussion of target audience and values, the lyrics, symbolic codes of the people in “Man in the Mirror and the different races/cultures in “Black or White” and the effectiveness of how the “Man in the Mirror” music video is narrative and how the “Black or White” video is a combination of both narrative and performance, shows how “Man in the Mirror” and “Black or White” target a particular
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“Man in the Mirror” is a narrative video due to the fact that Jackson doesn’t appear in the music video. The video began with a scene of two children appearing to suffer poverty. This presents the audience’s value to help save the world by positioning them to feel sympathetic. The “Black or White” video starts off as a narrative. The interlude started off with Culkin jamming to music which then annoys his father. A picture of Jackson is smashed when his father closes the door so he eventually disobeyed and played a guitar loudly to an extent which blasted him off to the sky. Then it transitions into a performance music video with Jackson dancing with other people of different races. This is a playful fun video with a meaningful message of “we are all one”. The video celebrates racial equality, this positions the audience to view racial equality as a positive thing. This fits the particular audience because of the catchy song and the message it conveys and they can relate to this because it presents more than one race. The “Man in the Mirror” video is very serious which positions them to feel sympathetic. It compared the heroism that help ‘save’ the world and the things that made it worse such as war. The effect of the narrative makes it more meaningful and challenges the audience to help save the world. Therefore narrative elements bring effectiveness to the target audience and their
“Man in the Mirror” is a narrative video due to the fact that Jackson doesn’t appear in the music video. The video began with a scene of two children appearing to suffer poverty. This presents the audience’s value to help save the world by positioning them to feel sympathetic. The “Black or White” video starts off as a narrative. The interlude started off with Culkin jamming to music which then annoys his father. A picture of Jackson is smashed when his father closes the door so he eventually disobeyed and played a guitar loudly to an extent which blasted him off to the sky. Then it transitions into a performance music video with Jackson dancing with other people of different races. This is a playful fun video with a meaningful message of “we are all one”. The video celebrates racial equality, this positions the audience to view racial equality as a positive thing. This fits the particular audience because of the catchy song and the message it conveys and they can relate to this because it presents more than one race. The “Man in the Mirror” video is very serious which positions them to feel sympathetic. It compared the heroism that help ‘save’ the world and the things that made it worse such as war. The effect of the narrative makes it more meaningful and challenges the audience to help save the world. Therefore narrative elements bring effectiveness to the target audience and their