Radiohead

•  Long established band
• very loyal fans
• interact with fans cryptically
• From Oxford
• used to be called 'On a Friday'

Trumpton-

• stop motion animation for kids
• 60s to early 70s
• British
• cultural significance
• portrays a quaint village life - no crime - middle class - safe - England

Wickerman-

• Police Sergeant to a Scottish isle to investigate a girls disappearance 
• officer is a Christian but islanders believe in pagan gods
• mother and island residents claim the girl never existed and try to thwart the investigation
• Discovers the islanders sacrifice someone for a good harvest and thinks the sacrifice is Rowan
• the sacrifice is instead the policeman

Burn the Witch-

• Released just before Trump was elected - rise of the right
• references twitter
• Brexit vote was also happening
• Doesn't shake the town mayors hand - downhill from there
• 41 million YouTube views
• 22000 comments
• smaller aspect ratio - 4:3 - restricted view - don't see everything
• Demagogue - political leader that seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than using rational arguments
• Trumpton - traditional English town - UKIP ideology - Brexit
• anti - immigrant populists in France 
• on their ninth album - contrasting Emeli Sande's first single - no need to build their image so they can just present their messages in a purest form
• Thom Yorke - Chris Hopewell (director) - Virpi Kettu (animator)

Starts in equilibrium - disruption - new equilibrium

Equilibrium - driving down and mayor knows about inspectors arrival but no ill intentions

disruption

Inspector turns down the mayors hands

New equilibrium - inspector killed

Negative representations of women - often had traditional roles in the village like a baker - X painted on the doors of women - traditionally for witches or plague victims

slavery - the apple farmers - manual labour - nondescript features of extravagant clothing - modern day slavery typically topped up with alcohol which is seen in the video - jobes brand tomato is a biblical reference

violence - noose and weapons throughout - the whole beef wellington - sacrifice - wasnt enough so a human must be used

Lyrics - various lyrics hint towards witch hunts - 

'Red crosses on wooden doors' - how witch hunters used to mark the doors of witch residents - in the video the X was placed on a women's door

'And if you float you burn' - Trials for witches would include seeing if they float or sink - in the video a girl on the seesaw is above water

'Loose talk around tables' - women who would gossip used to be accused of witchcraft

Radiohead sent postcards to everyone on their mailing list a week before the songs release saying 'we know where you live' - also a lyric in the song

Representations - 

• twitter
• slavery 
• authority - typically the men in this video