narrative

apply theories of narrative to one of your coursework productions

The coursework piece I will be applying the theories too is A2 my performance/narrative music video 'midnight wanderer'. The narrative of the story is put in between the performance parts during the song to keep the audiences attentions to get to understand the image of the band and the story. The story in the video is told via a linear narrative, with the equlibruim starting with the bar scene where the good cowboy enters another cowboys territory, with the disequilibrium coming at the bar where a fight breaks out before they get thrown out on to the street, which leads us to the new equilibrium a fight out scene where the good cowboy leaves with the girl.

Propps 8 character theory can be applied to my music video as we have the typical villain who is the bad cowboy, the false hero which is the good cowboy (he's the false hero as he is the one who has come in to the bad guy territory) and the princess which is the barmaid who is the reward for the winner of the shoot out at the end of the video. These three characters can also have kate domaille love triangle theory be applied to them as there is a clear love triangle between the good and bad cowboys and the barmaid as she will go with the winner showing she must equally like them both.

Pam cooks cause and effect theory can be applied to music video as the main cause is the good cowboy enters the bad cowboys territory The cause is the good cowboy at the bar seeing to be hitting on the barmaid (the bad cowboys girl) which then leads to the fight to break out leading to the shoot out.

Claude Levi Strauss theory of binary opposites can be applied to the music video as we witness the battle of the good guy verse the bad guy a typical piece of any storyline. This is the basis of the storyline if we only had one it wouldn't work that's why we need both to have a conflict and narrative to the video among the performance parts.

The narrative techniques of the characters, sequence, and cause and effect is clearly shown in the video and easy for the audience to understand and possibly relate to.