Further Intertextuality in Michael Jacksons Thriller video
Michael Jackson's Thriller video was the first ever short film to be made for a music video and has changed the way we see music videos we see toady with more music videos being made into short films like Lady GaGa's Telephone.
Thriller is a thriller video featuring scenes of acting, singing and dancing. Many aspects of this video has been used in many other media texts also. The video is also structured like a normal song with an opening title and ending credits as the screen shots show:
The final clip, the ending of the video where Michael (holding an innocent girl in his arms) turns around to look at the camera with evil eyes is a clip used in many other music videos for example.
Here is the screen shot of the clip explained in Michael Jackson- Thriller.
Clips like these are also used as Intertextuality in two other recent American music videos I have seen. The screen shot is from Britney Spears- I wanna go and feature the same shot at the end of the videos as the one in Thriller (as shown above).
The iconic featured dance in Thriller is one intertextualy used in many other forms of media texts, for example, the dance sequenced was copied in the US TV series Glee and the US feature film 13 Going On 30.
Here are the screen shots of the copied dance of the Thriller choreography.
glee
13 going on 30
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