My Music Video: from Research to Filming

Our group spent a long a time on deciding a song to use. We looked at so many different ones we just decided to pick whichever was good enough to fit the story. I personally do not like the song we chose, but that’s just my opinion. I think that the song fits the story, but not the genre we chose because we were going to pick a classic rock song, but we could not decide on what we wanted to do.

We went on your YouTube for a while and we kind of got an idea on what we wanted to do story wise, but it was difficult to find ideas so we came with the basic idea of someone breaking up. I thought this would be difficult because of the story and our genre of classic rock don’t exactly go well. I say this because classic rock is groups of people dancing and being rebellious to society. I think are ideas were not exactly creative, but it gets the job done.

The conventions of our music video are quite stereo typical because we use lots of well used thing like the weather being dull and grey to represent sadness and the main actor (Aaron) looking sad. I believe that we do not really have many conventions within the video just because it’s kind of the same thing throughout besides the fact we use a time lapse to symbolise time passing. I think it’s a shame that we could not vary the video much, but we could not find much inspiration so we kind of winged it with the conventions because they would take too long to come up with so we just used the basic stereotypical stuff. I do believe we met the ones we used because we somewhat tried to.

Research helped a little because, but was not extremely helpful because we struggled to come up with an idea on what song we should use even after about an hour looking at various songs we went with a newer song called fallout which fits the story, but not the genre. I feel like we did do enough research, but it was not really effective research because we spent most of our research time looking for songs and not for ideas which is the reason we came up with a simple idea.

Music video narrative toddarov

Music video

The equilibrium: Two people are in a relationship and are happy.

The disruption: The couple have an argument and spit up.

The realisation : He realises his mistake.

Restore order: He rewinds to change his mistake

New Equilibrium: Back together in a relationship

This applies to toddarovs narrative theory.

Propp and Toddarov

Narrative Theory

Apply both Propp’s Character Types and Todorov’s Narrative Steps to a film of your choice. Some ideas might be:

·         Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

·         Shaun of the Dead

·         Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

·         Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

·         Aladdin

Film Title: Pirates of the Caribbean curse of the Black Pearl

Narrative Steps	Write a few sentences about what happens at each stage of the film:
Equilibrium	The main character is doing his normal thing which is running away and stealing stuff.
Disruption	The main character gets shot at by his own ship when he is in prison.
Realisation	Jack Sparrow realises that all the people on his ship are cursed and they are undead.
Restoring Order	Jack Sparrow kills his former friend who was taking control of his ship.
New Equilibrium	Jack goes back to stealing stuff and running away from the law.

Propp’s Character Types

Character types	Character in the film	What the character does in the film
The villain	Captain Barbosa	Puts main character on a deserted island to die slowly.
The dispatcher	Jack Sparrow	Inspires people to find the Black Bearl
The helper	Will Turner	Helps Jack throughout the film
The princess	Elizabeth	she always needs saving from the bad pirates or English red coats
The donor	Gibbs	Gets Jack a crew and ship
The hero	Will Turner	He is the only one who is trying do this because he is trying to save Elizabeth
The false hero	Jack Sparrow	He is always tricking

Hero's journey

Poster analysis

Signifiers	Denotations	Connotations
Dark	Simple	Lonely
White	Black and white	Man in the middle of the moon. Could mean he is the main person in the story
Man in the middle of  the moon	Blank/ not much happening on the poster	Layers to the moon could mean that the story is covered.
Plain white text	name is repeated in a grey colour	His name is copied which could symbolise the story.
Layers to the moon	Moon is made up of layers	Dark side of the moon could symbolise that it’s not what you think
Black background	Very simple black background	Title is bold and stands out from the background which could mean that the story is focused on the moon.

Signifiers	Denotations	Connotations
Dark	There is a fuse which links to his name “wick”	He’s a bomb that’s will go off if something starts the fuse.
Half his face is shadowed	Light and dark side to him	The light and dark side could symbolise that he has 2 sides to him.
A fuse is used as a tie	He is wearing a black suit	The light and dark could also symbolise that he is mysterious and shady.
He is serious	He has a serious facial expression	He is symbolised as a bomb that’s about to go off which could mean that someone or something has happened to him which has now set him off