Task 2 - Burn The Witch stuff

Task 2 - Burn The Witch stuff

References

• References to trumpton style & the Wickerman 
• 'Jobes' on tomato boxes, represents idyllic culture
• Dangers of mob mentality
• Pressure to conform to the norm & fear of the outsiders
• Critique of increased populism within western politics
• Critique of western society's response to the migrant crisis.

1. B, as it represents the mobs fear out the outsider and intention to preserve tradition by banding together and burning the visitor
2. H, depicts the visitor and the mayor together in the town center, showing that the mayor & town may expect him to conform to their ideals

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Xenophobia - The community fears the outsider and subjects them to prejudice, as seen by the fact they attempt to burn the visitor inside of the wickerman.

Nationalism - The community wants to preserve and promote their own idyllic ideology and disregards the opinions of the outsider.

(Critique of western society's response to the migrant crisis.)

- Worker painting a red cross on a residents door, symbolising that they are no longer welcome within the community. The resident is surprised to see this, and represents that they did not know what they were going to be removed, reflecting what migrants felt when western society pushed them away.

- Attempt to burn the visitor inside of the wickerman to remove them from the community because they do not share the same ideals as them and therefore doesn't not belong; much like migrants, who have their own beliefs aside from those seen in western society.

- The town is first presented as welcoming to the visitor but soon becomes unwelcoming; represents the west backtracking on their promises regarding the migrant crisis and their poor response to it.

15 minutes, 10 marks: Only choose two scenes to comment on

• 2-3 sentences to answer question - include lots of view points
• Radiohead - established & well known for using their music to share political, social ideologies
• Use messages suggested above - for example the critique of western society's response to the migrant crisis
• Two paragraphs on two examples
 
Radiohead's 'Burn the Witch' music video uses media language to incorporate their own viewpoints and ideologies. In the music video they demonstrate their critique of western society's response to the migrant crisis by creating an idyllic community which is inclusive and fears the outsider, the visitor, to show how western societies have turned migrants away and broken their own promises to them. This is seen when a member of the town paints a red cross on a residents door, which symbolizes the fact that they are no longer welcome in their society, much to the residents surprise. This incorporates Radiohead's viewpoints and ideologies as it reflects the feelings of migrants who were turned away by western society as they were unaware they were not welcome and were led to believe that they were allowed to join and contribute to their society. Their viewpoints and ideologies regarding their own critique of western society's response to the migrant crisis is shown by the fact that within the video the town is first presented as innocent and welcoming as seen by the opening shot of a blue bird singing but quickly becomes unwelcoming as seen by the ritual and mistreatment of its residents, which represents western societies backtracking on their promises to migrants, justifying the fact that their response was poor. To add onto this point, it can be seen that Radiohead also picks apart the problem of forced conformity from western society to migrants, as the visitor is forced into the soon to be burning wickerman against his own will and interests, representing the fact that western society forced migrants to accept their ideals and customs.

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