Our music video surounds a couple, who are the only characters that feature throughout, rather than a protagonist and antagonist. This challenges Propp's theory of character types as the two main characters oppose this completely. Rather than following narrative of the 'hero' being presented as having a challenge to overcome we have chosen to present our protagonist as being weak and vulnerable having experienced loss. Our male protagonist challenges stereotypes because he is the one who becomes physically weaker and dependent on the female protagonist, opposing the assumed masculinity of the male gender. The results of our audience survey showed that Todorov's equilibrium/disequilibrium/equilibrium narrative structure was not as popular as a non-linear format. We have chosen to use a circular narrative structure, beginning at the end/climax of the story, that proceeds to take the audience through past events - following a non-linear structure - before returning back to the end. Our audience thought that this provided the narrative with more depth and therefore more appealing to watch.
Within our storyboard, scenes 8 to 10 we have chosen to use action codes, according to Barthe's codes theory. Here we will present action to convey something the audience knows and doesn't need explaining with dialogue eg. our male protagonist waking abruptly and being driven to hospital conveying to the audience that he is severely ill.
At the beginning of the music video we plan to make use of enigma code, by witholding information from the audience to create intrigue. We do this by not revealing what has happened to our male protagonist until the end of the video. This was something our audience thought was an important factor in the success of a music video - an original and intriguing story line that conveys a deeper meaning was more popular than a stereotypical romance story.
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