Evan Appleby NEA

Website requirements Original audio or audio-visual content which may include material from the music video but must also include one element specifically for the magazine. minimum two original images must be different than those produced for the music video appropriate conventions of website design, including an original title and logo for the band/artist's webpage and menu bar. text introducing band/artist working links from home page to another page techniques such as typography, images, fonts, backgrounds, logos etc. Intertextuality Words on wall of motivation - “Have hope be strong laugh loud & play hard live in the moment smile often dream big remember you are loved and never ever give up” Lesson timetable could be used for tour dates and locations for my artist Font is same as the words on wall from the video nature motif that is the same as the location from the performance shots Tour timetable Thu 15 - Dublin - 3 Arena Mon 19 Feb - Glasgow- SSE Hydro Wed 21 Feb - Newca...

  For the performance sections of the video, I wanted to create the persona of a rock star with a formal attire to not make the persona too extreme or rebellious but more laid back which will be reflected by the website through interviews and text written about the singer . The plot of the video is a more conventional story following Todorov with a hero ’s equilibrium being disrupted and them having to go through a chain of events to fix it and create a new equilibrium . This also follows Propp’s character theory with a protagonist, antagonist, and helper that all push the story. Binary opposition is shown between the protagonist and the antagonist to create conflict and push the story forward. All these narrativ e theories help to make a conventional story that will be easy to follow without dialogue or sound as all narrative music videos must do. I used body language especially to portray these emotions and story as it is something everyone will understand even without die...

I chose this song as it has the narrative of someone who is feeling down and bad about their life and wish they could be better which matches the narrative of my music video.  The video follows the narrative of an equilibrium of the protagonist wanting to learn the piano, this is disrupted when her teacher is abusive towards her and discourages her from learning. Her friend then encourages her to do better and practice more without  the teacher where she instead gives credit to her friend for the help and encouragement and reaches the new equilibrium of the protagonist being happy with her piano skills and her friendship with her helper. I used a variety of shots to enhance the narrative of the music video; I used an over the shoulder low angle from behind the teacher looking at the student to show the power she has over her with a mirrored over the shoulder high angle from the protagonist’s perspective to enforce how powerless she is. Multiple demographics...