LEARNING INTENTION: To explore how narratives can be inspired by a song. KEY TERMS: disjunctive, amplified, illustrative, episodic, linear, thematic, anachronic, synesthesia.
Now you know more about filming to edit and filming/editing for narrative sense, you will need to learn a little more about narratives in music videos.
Boy meets girl is acceptable but a little worn and cliched. We want you to try and plan and film some more cutting edge, intriguing narratives.
Play some of the narrative games – bingo and go fish.
Then complete the following and reflect in your post.
Choose 3 videos with narratives. Embed them all separately in your blog.
- Overview of the narrative content: amplified, disjunctive, illustrative.
- Overview of the structure: Episodic? Linear? Thematic? Anachronic?
- What is the story – in a nutshell? – 4 to 5 sentences.
- Is there an ending and if not, how does it end and how does it make you feel?
Then come up with 3 of your own quirky narratives that you could summarise in a snappy headline. Use some ideas you have seen and also discovered in the games.
LIFE IS A GOLDFISH BOWL – a man is a spectator in life, trapped in a cycle of tedious routine, until he breaks the glass goldfish bowl that he looks at every night and breaks out and finally finds his freedom.
NEVER PRESUME – a child is playing pooh sticks and without fail the stick appears. However, as an adult when he plays it, the stick does not appear. Never presume that what has gone before will happen as a given.
ALONE AND BAKED OFF – a person is making a cake – we follow its construction from buying the ingredients to decorating it…..and in the end they sit waiting for someone to join them to eat it and noone arrives.
THE MONSTER WITHIN – a mad scientist struggles but eventually succeeds to wake up his beautiful robot assistant.
LIFE FLASHES BY – a man in a coma, relives all his experiences through his senses – everything he has tasted, smelt, seen, heard and touched. In doing so, he is revived.
GET ME OUT OF HERE – a young girl is suffocated by domestic restrictions of her old fashioned parents. A silent, uninspiring tea time, leads her to break free and at the same time destroy the dolls house she has lived in.
20TH CENTURY CAVE MAN – a group of neanderthal men dance and worship a god in anticipation of a tribal war. This is cross cut to man now, still tribal, still a warrior as we see a group of men brandishing weapons, burning books – they are the same men in the cave.