ABSTRACT NARRATIVE One piece of feedback about my music video is that it doesn’t seem to have much of a narrative. Some of the scenes, particularly the party scenes didn’t make sense to people within the product as a whole because it didn’t seem to piece together. I am taking this comment on board and am beginning to think of ways to make the video flow more. However, it was my plan from the beginning of this project to not have a particular narrative in my music video. My treatment sheet states: “Hurricane will not show a chronological story … Major themes of youth and independence are played on as we join a group of young people at a Halloween party … The destabilisation of her life is mirrored with that of a set narrative … CHANGE is the key theme of ‘Hurricane’ music video.” I tried to stick to this concept and rather than show a narrative, try to show themes through the visuals relating to the lyrics (linking to Goodwin’s genre theory). I will therefore explore the ways in which I came to this conclusion. Narrative is a key element of all film productions. Most will be able to tell a story from beginning to end and leave the audience without any major questions regarding what happened. However there are forms of a more abstract narrative, wherein the production is more experimental. I tried to portray this in my own production as I thought the genre called for more of an abstract music video to accompany it. Halsey, the artist of my chosen

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ABSTRACT NARRATIVE

One piece of feedback about my music video is that it doesn’t seem to have much of a narrative. Some of the scenes, particularly the party scenes didn’t make sense to people within the product as a whole because it didn’t seem to piece together. I am taking this comment on board and am beginning to think of ways to make the video flow more. However, it was my plan from the beginning of this project to not have a particular narrative in my music video. My treatment sheet states: “Hurricane will not show a chronological story … Major themes of youth and independence are played on as we join a group of young people at a Halloween party … The destabilisation of her life is mirrored with that of a set narrative … CHANGE is the key theme of ‘Hurricane’ music video.” I tried to stick to this concept and rather than show a narrative, try to show themes through the visuals relating to the lyrics (linking to Goodwin’s genre theory). I will therefore explore the ways in which I came to this conclusion.

Narrative is a key element of all film productions. Most will be able to tell a story from beginning to end and leave the audience without any major questions regarding what happened. However there are forms of a more abstract narrative, wherein the production is more experimental.

I tried to portray this in my own production as I thought the genre called for more of an abstract music video to accompany it. Halsey, the artist of my chosen song, is representative of the alternative genre, fitting more into the sub-genres of dream-pop and indietronica. My extensive research into similar products showed that many of them don’t particularly make sense to the regular audience. The range of different scenes showing images we wouldn’t necessarily understand or expect to see add to this concept. Being slightly more limited, I still tried to pull off this effect by using a bunch of different scenes and footage within my video whilst incorporating my key themes of independence and corruption. The original music video of my chosen song Hurricane

My research led me to a multitude of different artists, all of whom showed very different music videos whilst using the same idea of an abstract narrative and a lack of a story.