My first project pitch choice is the music video “God Is A Woman” by Ariana Grande. The main reason or pro of why I chose to analyze this music video is because there are so many symbolic images included within this music video that I think would be really interesting to closely inspect and break down. I’m planning on using the lenses of gender and religion to interpret the music video since I think this song is mainly focused on those two areas. However, the con of this topic is that it’s kind of controversial and people might disagree with my interpretations. Also, since everything seems to have a symbolic meaning attached to it, I would have to do a lot of research and narrow down my options to only focus on a few of the main points of the video.
My second project pitch choice is the music video “1-800-273-8255” by Logic ft. Alessia Cara and Khalid. The pro of choosing to analyze this music video is that there are a lot of lenses of which I can choose to focus on. One of those would be the sexuality/LGBTQ+ area, which is what the music video chooses to mainly focus on. Another would be the mental health/depression/suicidal area due to certain scenes within the music video and the song’s title, which is the number for the suicide hotline. The con for choosing this is that the music video is shown like a movie and that it would be hard to closely focus on certain scenes without having to reference some scenes before it as background knowledge.
My third project pitch choice is the music video “The Village” by Wrabel. The pro of choosing to analyze this music video is that there is a lot of symbolism in the form of both images and quotes that I can focus on and interpret. I can also interpret this through the gender/transgender lenses through the eyes of young people because that’s the main area that this music video is trying to bring awareness to. The con of choosing this topic is that this music video is also shown like a movie and it would be hard to focus and narrow down on a certain scene without having to reference certain scenes before it.