NARRATIVE THEORIES

I'm going to be researching and discussing a few media theorists and what their ideas are in terms of narrative structure, I will then assume my video into the category which I think it will fit under.

Vladimir Propp.
Propp proposed that we should classify characters into defined roles based on the functions they do. He said the usual character roles are:
The Hero, the villian, the donor (helps the hero), the dispatcher (sends hero on his way), the false hero (falsely assuming role of the actual hero), the princess (needs help from the hero), her father.

Tzvetan Todorov.
Todorov suggests that most narratives start off with a state of equilibrium in which life is normal. The normality is then disrupted by an outside force, therefore either a new equilibrium is produced at the end of the narrative or the previous state of equilibrium is resolved.

Equilibrium > Disequilibrium > New Equilibrium

Roland Barthes.

Barthes suggests the narrative has 5 different codes which the active audience make sense of them.
Codes: Action, enigma, symbolic, semic, cultural.

In my music video at the start, the camera is a high angle shot and spins as it slowly zooms in to the actress - *note at this point she has a white dress on - the camera then cuts to the guitar and cuts back to her with a different costume on and her sitting up looking around. The ideology behind this was that she's 'waking up' into an alternate reality dream world, which is where the rotoscope animation comes in - obviously rotoscoping doesn't happen in real life therefore we know it's an alternate reality and not real. This therefore comes under a state of equilibrium being disrupted.
In conclusion, my video not only comes under performance, animation and abstract - it also uses Todorov's narrative theory.