Planning:Outline of narrative

 

 

 

 

 

 

This song is about SZA the artist as she talks about how she feels about life and how she thinks most teenagers do. She talks about not trusting pretty girls or anyone because they can make you hate yourself. These are typical situations that teenagers face in life such a social groups or bullying. In the music video she commits suicide creating a dark and sensitive vibe, which has people thinking instead of enjoying it.

For my groups music video we have decided to stay with the message of the song of suicide because it makes sense for the message to match the lyrics. we have chosen to use narrative, performance and concept for our video. The narrative consists of 2 situations that young adults may face in tough times. We want to use a violent couple and a girl who gets bullied for being different. For performance we wanted to show the star all alone in a dark room with a spot light on her as she lip syncs the words. And for concept we wanted to show random things that we thought created purity such as leafs, trees, hair blowing, birds and a river.

Theories applied in my music video

Goodwin
I will include editing that will match the pace of the song with visuals will match the lyrics. Technical elements will be used to help the production of my video as well as star image. Intersexual reference's will not be used and male gaze will not be used as well.

Dyer:
Star theory will be applied, we will have a star that the music video will focus on. we will do this by using close up shots on the star as she lip syncs and acts.

Mulvey:
Male gaze will not be used because it is not appropriate for our narrative. Also we do not want our female characters to be represented as sexual objects and instead want them to be represented as vulnerable girls.

Hebdige:
We are not going to follow Hebdige's idea as we are aiming for a niche audience rather than subcultures. We have a mainstream idea however the themes are much darker and the song presents that.

Adorno:
We are not going to follow his ideas because we are not trying to manipulate our audience and turn them into masses with our music video.


Conclusion
My narrative has a mainstream idea however it follows a diverse format because of the song. While planning for my music video knowing what theory i'm going to use has helped me know what would be appropriate for our music video and what wouldn't be suitable.