- Narrative is to do with time and how you use it.
- Aristotle says we have a beginning, a middle and an end.
- Time could be linear, non-linear, sequential or non-sequential.
- Narratives are organised around a particular theme and space and are based in an idea of time.
- Within a music video there is generally a type of theme that connects the images and clips together.
- There is a distinction between narrative, story and plot.
- Bulgarian structuralist theorist Tztevan Todorov.
- Says beginning, middle and end can be classed as equilibrium, disruption and new equilibrium.
- Exposition, climax and denouement.
- What his the high point of drama within the music video?
- Art cannot be wrong.
- Vladimir Propp.
- Stock characters, heroes and villains.
- Stock characters perform stock functions.
- The six stages of a story.
- Claude Levi-Strauss.
- Binary Oppositions.
- We never know what is, we only know what isn’t.
- Concepts and opposite concepts (good and bad).
- Seymour Chatman.
- Kernels: key moments in the plot/narrative structure.
- Satellites; embellishments, developments, aesthetics.
- Rules and strategies.
- My own music video ideas:
- different scenes chopping in and out in a flashback sort of style that runs along side the main story.
- Two girls, both in early teens and perhaps sisters.
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