For my A2 production I created a linear hip hop music video, the artist that we choice was Carl Carlton ‘She’s a bad mama jama’. Our music video is focused on skating and young love. We filmed our music video in a skate park in South Bank up in London. It’s about a young man skating around and meeting a young woman who he believes is a ‘bad mama jama’.
A narrative theorist that can be linked with our music video is Claude Levi Strauss, as our music video was shot in the winter the weather would be rather cloudy or dull. Therefore, it shows the binary opposition as our song is very funky and energetic; therefore, it would have been better shooting in sunny weather as it is a funky song.
‘The narrative will establish enigmas or mysteries’; Roland’s enigma code can relate to our music video, for example, people would want to know whether Carl Carlton would get the girl at the end. This is one of Roland’s narrative codes, others that relate to our music video would be symbols and signs because in our music video the common thing that both our characters had was skating which is a symbol of similarity. Signs, such as the characters holding hands and skating together shows interest, which therefore relates to the lyrics of the song.
I think Propp’s 31 functions doesn’t relate or link to our music videos as we have no hero, villain or victim, and Propp’s functions focuses on the hero, villain and the victim. Therefore, it cannot link in with our music video, I believe Propp’s functions are mainly linked or related to films rather than music videos.
Alongside Propp’s, I believe Todorov’s theory doesn’t relate or link to our music video as we do not have an equilibrium, disequilibrium and resolution. In our music video we only have the equilibrium as there is no antagonist that gets in the protagonists way to cause conflict or a disequilibrium.
Stuart Halls encoding/decoding theory can relate to our music video as the certain way Carl Carlton sang and wrote the lyrics and the way we encoded the lyrics to our music video would get decoded by the audience and the audience would relate the lyrics to our music video and see the relation between it.
A contemporary narrative theorist called Rosemary Huisman looked at narratives in many different concepts.
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