Evan Appleby NEA

  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...