Apply relevant narrative theorists to your music video

Illustration – the visual form of the music video. This can be seen by the visual singing of a certain song that they were singing. These videos are often called the performance videos because you can actually see the act performing the song. This is what we are doing in our music video as the ideas we all have are to have the band playing the song but we would have lots of different shots.

Amplification- Amplification would be a music video which has both narrative and performance of showing the story in the music video but also has the connotations of the meanings. They are designed to be creative and artistic which is made to look like a story or an artistic statement.

Disjuncture- The videos initially ignore the music video completely and the genre of the music and tries to create a whole new meaning to the lyrics. The videos don’t normally make sense and most of the time use abstract imagery that viewers would find very interesting. They usually have some kind of performance from the artist but do not have any links to the lyrics or to what the band is performing. This is not what

Tzvetdan Todorov narrative has 5 main stages but with 3 key points:

1) Beginning, a stage of equilibrium- this is like our music video because it starts off with just shots of the band in standing positions but then slowly changing the way they are looking in the video.

 2) Middle, Disruption to the equilibrium- This is like our music video because this is where the video     will go a bit crazy with the UV light and the music becoming more up-tempo and more disruptive.

 3) End, restraining the equilibrium- this is when the video is going towards the end so in our music video it would be exactly like the outro.

Vladimir Propp 6 main stages to it, he analysed the stories of Russian fairy tales and wrote his theory about any kind of story:

 1) Preparation, where the scene is set for the people watching it to see what is happening. This is    linked to our music video slightly, because the people that are in the video are set as the three in the band showing where the scene starts and showing when the story of the video actually begins.

 2)  Complication is where a problem or an evil occurs. This doesn’t apply to our video; there is no problem that the actors occur in the video.

 3)  Transference is where a hero goes on to lead the quest against the problem or the evil that occurs. This again doesn’t happen in our music video or isn’t going to happen at the moment.

 4) Struggle is where the audience see a significant fight between a hero and a villain. This definitely does not happen in our music video.

 5)  Return is where the hero return with the quest fulfilled, this doesn’t happen in our music video and does not apply to our video in any way.

 6) Recognition is where the victim is punished and the hero is rewarded for his duties that he carried out. This has no part in our music video as we have no hero or a villain.

Claude Levi-Strauss- he observed that all narratives are organised around the conflict between oppositions. This theory goes against what we are doing in our music video because we don’t really have a story in our video it is just a representation of the group performing the song and doesn’t have a story.