Todorov Tripartite Narrative Structure:

National Anthem by Lana Del Rey:

• Beginning Equilibrium: The video starts and Lana sings an introduction as herself and then swiftly turns into the dolled up housewife that resembles the once first lady Jackie Kennedy. She soften`s her children`s hair and kisses her husband. In the varying idyllic video montages it is clear that she lives for her children and her husband and projects the ideal life of “The American Dream”.
• Disruption: The protagonist`s life becomes less about her children and more about her overwhelming lust/love for her husband, who in return is shown to be enamoured with spending, smoking and partying. Money is thrown around a room literally and dice are dropped (showing gambling etc), and Lana sits on a rug made of an animal in an almost crude show of wealth.
• New Equilibrium: From this, the light turns hazier and yet brighter and the dice are picked off the ground physically. The protagonist and her husband sit in an old car with private protection are them, and whilst the camera zooms in on Lana, gunshots are heard and the protagonist`s face resembles that off shock and despair. The video ends with the bright light fading out her face.

Bellyache by Billie Eilish:

• Beginning Equilibrium: Billie is at peace sat by herself on the side of the road. She has a red wagon beside her with binbags in . The protagonist slowly gets up as the music starts and starts walking in the middle of the road with the Hollywood hills in the background.
• Disruption: She begins to open the black bags and reveals multiple stacks of money. In an act of defiance she throws them to the ground and keeps on walking; also running and dancing from time to time. The fact that this is in the middle of the road shows how reckless and carefree she is.
• New Equilibrium: This journey leads her show the viewers an uprooted sunflowers, roots and everything, and she throws it on the road. Swiftly she is then faced with a police car and policeman wielding some sort of baton and she comes to a halt. We are only left with an image closeup of that sunflower in the tarmac.

Just the way you are by Bruno Mars:

• Beginning Equilibrium: It starts with a girl listening to music on her headphones. Bruno Mars then proceeds to enter the frame and removes her headphones before smiling and pulling out the tape from her MP3 player. This starts the beginning of the song.
• Disruption: The music video proceeds to switch between writing lyrics like “she`s so beautiful” and showing us different montages of the girl at the start and Bruno. There is a lot of back and forth flirting that is clearly there to show viewers the overall storyline of the video, although a lot of it shows that it is more heavily from Bruno`s side.
• New Equilibrium: However, this soon changes when the girl sits by Bruno on the piano and is clearly starting to make her own move instead of waiting for him. When the video ends we see the girl sat on the sofa, and because Bruno is at the piano it is almost as if we see her from his eyes.

Music Video Song Choice: For my music video I have chosen the song “Restart” by Pleasure Scheme; a small edinburgh based electric rock band. I chose this song because of the refreshing, alternative style and the lyrics which relate very closely to your teenage yeras and it has a “coming-of-age” feel to it.