Using Todorov’s narrative structure, each music video can be divided and summarised into three parts:

Beginning equilibrium: everything is fine, life is ‘normal’

Disruption: bad thing happens that causes the plot to change. Hero goes on a quest to balance the equilibrium again

New equilibrium: world goes back to ‘normal’, although with some major changes.

Young Rising Sons – High

Beginning equilibrium: there are shots of happy scenes with the main character’s friends for the first 4 seconds before introducing the main disruption

Disruption: 4 seconds in, a man (the main character) is shown drinking alcohol from the bottle for a long while. The scene changes intermittently but at 10 seconds he looks upset and sings “in my heart is an emptiness”. These scenes where the main character is illuminated by red lighting are sandwiched inbetween shots with the main character having fu with friends, wearing sunglasses

New equilibrium: When the chorus says “if this is low i’m looking for high”, suddenly the main character in the red shots starts to smile and jump around. AT the end of the music video, he seems to be happier

Fickle friends – Say No More

Beginning equilibrium: the band is at gatwick airport. they are in the queue to drop off their luggage.

Disruption: the band boards a plane. This counts as a disruption as it causes the ‘plot’ to shift

New equilibrium the band leaves the plane and arrive in new york. Shots are shown of them having fun in their adventure

Goodbye, Goodbye – Tegan and Sara

The music video for this song doesn’t really follow a narrative structure due to the narrative progression being almost the same the whole way through