Possible Controversies in Our Music Video

After studying Rihanna's 'Man Down' video, we decided to look at the possible controversial issues we could tackle in our project.
Molestation

• As our song discusses the aftermath of a traumatic event, the possibility of including an unwanted sexual experience may be worth attempting. However, this is a difficult subject to complete convincingly and tastefully, and may therefore be offensive to many people if performed poorly.

Natural Disasters

• A natural disaster could be shown in our music video, as it is something that affects a large number of people, especially those in more tropical countries. However, it would be expensive to re-create a natural disaster for our music video, and would be extremely hard to record actual footage as natural disasters are largely unexpected.

Same-Sex Relationships

• Even though same-sex relationships are generally considered 'normal', there are still certain prejudices people have regarding them. Moreover, there are certain rules broadcasters must abide by when exhibiting certain shows. For example, in a Glee episode, both an opposite-sex kiss and a same-sex kiss were shown when the programme aired after the 9pm watershed. When the episode aired at an earlier time, the same-sex kiss was cut, whilst the opposite-sex kiss remained, even though it was more sexual than the same-sex kiss. A problem with discussing this topic in our text would be the possibility that we would get distracted by trying to prove a point, that the project as a whole would become lost and therefore of a lower quality.

As a group, we decided that it would be easier for us to not include controversy in our music video, as it allows us to concentrate fully on the technical aspect of filming, and doesn't force us to constantly analyse the music video's content in terms of proving our point.