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CNARRATIVEBy Katie Norris

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What is a narrative?• A narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

• It is used within some music videos and can be shot in a particular order. Most narratives however, have a simple beginning, middle and end structure, and can sometimes include a moral or a message.

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My Music Video• My music video is completely narrative based.

• The song itself seems very story-like in terms of the lyrics, as they seem to be words of advice to someone who has to take some form of medicine. It is almost like there is a conversation within the lyrics that forms a story of someone's struggles and challenges in life

• For this reason, I decided to base my music video on the lyrics within the song, and try and represent this using a narrative within my music video about a girl who appears to drink and party a lot, and to which then takes its toll on her and makes her consider what she is doing. This occurs when her boyfriend meets her to talk about his worries, only to have them justified when he finds a bottle of alcohol in her bag. The girl then has the choice to take two separate paths and this is shown during a split screen.

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Narrative examples: the startThese jump cuts give the audience hints that the character may have been out the following night and also tells us she is a female

The audience is questioned as they would wonder why her boyfriend would want to meet in the woods, this is the start of the disruption within the narrative

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The disruption + endingThe disruption occurs when a new character is introduced into the video. Her boyfriend finds the alcohol and tries to talk to her about it, but to no avail as the female character refuses help

The split screen portrays the act of choices, one in which being positive the other being negative.

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The point of my narrative

• My narrative choice is to grab the audience attention about the serious issues behind drinking alcohol and not seeking help about it if it turns into an addiction

• This is especially the case within young people as more are starting to drink underage

• I also want to highlight the impact of choices that people make in their life. This is represented via the use of the split screen at the end of the video. On the left, the female character makes a positive decision to throw away the alcohol bottle and try and start her life over, where as on the right, her negative choice is to make matters worse and turn to tablets for comfort about her issues as well as drink, to which she sadly takes too many which leads to death. I wanted my video to have a hard hitting impact on the realities we face in life, especially as young teenagers in todays world, and have done this through the use of a strong powerful narrative.