Welcome to the jungle

                 
                        

Meaning of Representation

·      The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.

The short clip of the clip ‘Welcome to the jungle’ first starts of in an urban city at night time. This straight away has an effect on the audience because night time in urban cities has connotations for when dangerous people come out. Also it is time known for crime related events takes place. On the dark buildings there are small glimpses of light, which show and possibly show signs of hope over the dark night. We then progress to see a blacked out sports car. This car is drifting in the road in circles. The car as well as the buildings has small glimpses of colourful bright lights on it to, which to the audience will raise suspicion but will lower tension. The car is drifting in the road but strangely we cannot hear the tyres of the car skidding against the road. Only the soft, peaceful music playing in the background.

After when we pass the car scene we progress into a cloud of smoke. Beyond the smoke we are introduced into small black group of, which to be presented as gang members. These men are presented as straight faced, serious angry people. We can see this by their facial expressions. We get the feeling that they are gang members because they are standing in a coordinated formation with what seems to be a leader in the front. The leader holding to dogs portrayed as being violent, aggressive animals with gold chains as leashes. These gold leashes matching the big massive chains on the necks of these gang members, which show more of a connection between all the people.

As the camera passes through the gang members we then see a small group of attractive women dancing. These women are wearing short exposing clothing in the colour red. The colour red has connotations of love, blood but mainly on women the feeling of seduction and going with the body positions of these women we see that these women are being sexually represented to the audience. Mainly to appeal to the male gender watching this short film.

Moving forward in this video we now are introduced to paparazzi. Along with these flash photographers we see a limo with what appears to look like a wealthy man in a suit waving and demanding the person behind the camera to get in the limo. When we get closer to the limo we get a view of inside and we see the middle aged gentleman smiling with excitement beside many young eastern European women with serious almost distraught faces. This connotes that the women are not enjoying themselves as well as the man is. Possibly they are there against their will or because they are with a man like that to take advantage of his money.

Moving through the video we then see what is portrayed as madness on the streets. We see a horse with a policeman on it potentially meaning that there is a possible riot. Helicopters showing that the situation is serious and now the authorities are looking for someone. Then we see a synchronised performed by a group of dancers all with masks on their faces. Half black and half white mask showing that there is no order in society.

Once the madness in the streets has passed we now see smoky streets with loads and loads of money dropping out the sky. Almost as if it was raining money.  As the camera moves down the street we are struck by a many different people all posing as different types of class, gender and work ethic. We see models, builders, rich white men and women and wrestlers. We see wealthy men throwing away money as if it doesn’t mean anything to them signifying that he is very rich and has a lot already. In an instant we now see the person behind the eyes of the camera. A pretty, innocent young white female, whose facial expressions signify that she in amazed and the scenes she’s seen has struck her with mixed emotions. Her face is straight till she sees what appears to be her date/partner. A well-presented young male in a suit with a chain signifying that he looks after himself and that he well set young male.