The todorov theory is an idea simplified of a narrative theory while also allowing more complex interruption of films text with his theory. The five steps of todorovs theory is…
Equilibrium: Normal life. Disruption: The villain causes a problem or an interruption to the hero’s normal life. Realisation: When the charters like the hero realise the problem. Restored order: When the charters fight the problem. Equilibrium again: Normal life is back. The propps theory is the charters in a movie for example. The hero: A charter that seeks something The villain: Who opposes or actively blocks the hero’s quest The donor: Who provides an object with magical properties. The dispatcher: Who sends the hero on his quest. The false hero: The one who takes the credit from the hero. The helper: The one that helps the hero The princess: The person that falls in love with the hero. The Barthes theory of semiotic codes some of these codes are. The Hermeneutic code (HER) this is the way that the story avoids telling the truth or revealing all the facts in order to drop clues in through out to help create mystery. The Enigma/ Porairetic code (ACT) this is the way the tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what happens next. The semantic code (SEM) The semantic code points to any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation which the story suggests. The connotation: cultural/underlining meaning, what it symbolises. The symbolic code (SYM): This is a very similar to the semantic code, but acts at a wider level, organising semantic meanings into broader and deeper sets of meaning. This is typically done in the use of antithesis, where new meaning arises out of the opposing and conflict ideas. The Cultural code (REF) looks at the audience’s wider cultural knowledge, morality and ideology. The Levi- Stratuss Theory is argued that all narratives could be reduced down to binary opposites for example.
Bathes theory An example of this is denotation and connotation is in Christina Perris Jar of hearts ands what you see is her white dress with black marks of dirt and what this show is her being pure but a bit damaged because the dress is dirty. An example of a music video with a narrative theory is Drake find your love. The Todorov theory Equilibrium is when Drake and his girlfriend are happy and in love. The disruptions when a gang steals her and uses her as a prostitute to make money. The realisation is when Drake want to go and see her one more time after being told to leave town. The restored order is when drake fights the gang. The return to equilibrium is when Drake was killed at the end. The propps theory Hero: Is Drake trying to save his girlfriend as she has been kidnapped by a local gang that run things where drake lives and he wants to stand up to the gang and protect his girlfriend. Sidekick: The old man telling drake to leave town. we see this man right at the beginning of the video trying to help drake leave town almost like a sidekick. The villain: The gang that has kidnapped Drakes girlfriend the reason they have kidnapped Drakes girlfriend is for human trafficking but because of her looks she is kept as a slave to the leader of the gang. The prize: The prize of the music video is Drakes girlfriend. The Levi- Stratuss Theory Drake vs the gang. Drake has decided that he is going to stand up to the gang and go and get his girlfriend back by sneaking in and taking her the leaving town so they cannot catch and kill drake. Drakes girlfriend vs Drake. When drake goes to save his girlfriend he gets captured and tied up to then find out that his girlfriend is actually working with the gang and she then goes on to kill Drake.
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that 1.10 ESSAY ON MEANING CONVOEYED IN MUSIC VIDEOS In this essay I will be looking at two different music videos that are the same genre which is pop the two songs are Jar of hearts by Christina perri and I’ll show you by Justin Beiber. Christina perri was born August 19th 1986, she is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist she origins from Bensalem Pennsylvania U.S.A. she sings pop music. Justin Bieber was born March 1st 1994 in London, Ontario, Canada he sings pop or teen pop he is also a singer and song writer. In both of these music videos the Mise en scene is completely different as the Christina Perri music video has a very dull location of a town that seems to be very dark gloomy and depressing where as the Justin Beiber music video is set in the hills of Iceland with waterfalls etc however the lighting is very light meaning that the song is happy. In the Christina Perri video the props used is a car and houses it is a street that has phone boxes etc, there is also a smoke machine used on set to create a dark, gloomy and sad feel. However, the only props in the Justin Beiber music video are his skateboard and the crashed plane the meaning of the plan could be that he on top of his problems as he's skating over a crashed plane that could represent his problems. The lighting in the Christina Perri music video is very dark and gloomy to create a sense of sadness as the song is a sad one and wants to portray the visuals with the lyrics. In contrast to the Justin Beiber music video which uses very little lighting as it is set during the day but the lighting is bright and happy and so is the song. The costumes in the two music videos are very different for example in the Christina Perri video the costume She is wearing a white dress which represents purity but it is dirty which could mean that that purity has been taken away from her by the boy that has hurt her. Where as in the Justin Beiber music video the costume is very simple and he is just wearing trainer’s jeans a black coat and a white hoody underneath he is also wearing a lot of white which can peace and wisdom. In conclusion I can see how both of these two music videos are completely different but be the same genre of music for example the location, costume and lighting of these music videos can be completely different. Christina Perri: Jar of hearts Sound & Lyrical Interpretation: the sound is diegetic as there are no sound effects the visuals in the music video are very literal as they show a jar with a heart in it and the song is called jar of hearts. Mise-en-scene: location, lighting, props The lighting is very dark, depressing and gloomy as the lighting is trying to show the audience that it is a sad song that has sentimental value to the artist. The town where the music video is set looks abandoned showing that Christina Perri feels alone. She is wearing a white dress which represents purity but it is dirty which could mean that that purity has been taken away from her by the boy that has hurt her. The props used is a car and houses it is a street that has phone boxes ect. There is a smoke machine used on set to create a dark, gloomy and sad feel. Cinematography: Close up to show the emotion on the artists face. Long shot to show the audience what is going on. mid shots to give the audience enough information about the person in front of the camera. Wide shots of the girls dancing with the man in an aggressive way to make them look like they are fighting. Style Narrative Structure is the style of this music video as it tells the story of a woman that is hurt by a boy and wants to stop him from hurting other girls. Editing Techniques:The cuts in this music video are slow as the songs tempo is slow and the song is a sad one. There is an animation used to show the artists heart empty at the beginning but at the end the heard comes back. There is also an animation that shows smoke going from the girls mouth to the boys to show the girls heart being taken and broken. Justin Bieber: I'll show youSound & Lyrical Interpretation: The sound of this music video is diegetic as there are no added sound effects.
Mise-en-scene: location, lighting, props The clothing is trainers jeans a black coat and a white hod die underneath Justin's clothing represents him as a cool, chilled out boy as the song is quite relaxing. The lighting for this music video is natural as all of the music video is outside and lights will be unneeded on the set of the video the brightness of the lighting in this music video shows that this music video is a positive one and makes the audience fell more happy rather than depressed. The location of this music video is Iceland it seems to be in the cliffs of Iceland and around the hills and rivers around Iceland the location of the music video seems to be quite and the song never gets to loud meaning that the location is relaxing such as the song. Cinematography: Establishing sot of Iceland to show the audience where the music video is set: tracking shot following Justin around. Wide shot of Justin walking around Iceland. Long shot of Justin to give the viewer a real idea of the what is going on in the set. High angle shot to make the artist seem small. Over the shoulder shot to show the point of view of the artist. Style / Narrative Structure:The style of this music video is performance as the artist is performing to the camera and there is no real story to the music video it is just Justin walking around sitting down and running around Iceland. Editing Techniques:The beat to the song is very slow this means that the cuts in this music video will be slow because it needs to fit the slow beat of the song. Single camera technique essay Single camera is a set up of filmmaking and video production with a single camera its also known as single-camera mode of production or the portable single camera. The single camera method is used to save time by using one camera to capture the shot they want. Single camera is often used in music videos, low budget films and news inserts. In single camera the first method is one long take which is when the film is just one long take with no cuts in-between. This means that the long take must be done perfectly which could mean that they would have to film the movie, music video a few times. An example of one long take is in a band called Ok Go music video where they use a drone to track them around an area when the music video was shot, the song is called I wont let you down and the shot used is a tracking shot following them around on a little electric unicycle. Filming with single camera and one long shot has lots of positives such as is shows creativity and is different to the majority of films and music videos and catches the eye of people. For example, OK GO won Grammies for their music videos, another positive is that you can experiment with the camera using different shots and zooms, using one long take makes the video look smooth and compelling to watch and is cheap to achieve as only one camera is needed. Single camera and one long take is not perfect as it has its down sides like more planning is needed to make the music video/ film as short as possible as if one thing goes wrong they will need to reshoot everything again, it can be very time consuming of example OK GO had 60 attempts before they got the music video right, difficult to film without is looking shaky as one continuous shot must look perfect and it wouldn’t be used for programmes or films as in this way it is hard to tell a story. There is also a second method of how single camera can be used which is taking different takes to then construct together later in the end this is very similar to multi camera. This is used in film conversations as it uses over the shoulder shots. It can also be used in news inserts. The positive of the technique above is that it is easy to film different shots, used to film conversations so there are not any visible cameras in the background. The negative of this technique is it is longer to film than multi camera as you have to do different shots to make it loos visually appealing to the audience and interesting after the edit, longer editing process than filming one take but less editing than multi camera. Overall single camera is a great technique to use on music videos as it is visually appealing and eye-catching however a film is not good for using single camera technique as it is hard to a tell a story from It. |
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