This 3-sentence summary provides the essential information about the music video narrative analysis document: The document selects and analyzes the music video for "When you're gone" by Avril Lavigne, which tells 3 different sad stories through alternating scenes. The first story shows a couple outside their home, with the woman appearing pregnant and crying as the man looks sad; this hints that the man is leaving for war. The analysis then describes specific shots from the video that portray the sadness of the couple's separation.

1. Music video narrative analysis
Brief
I selected ‘When you’re gone’ byAvrilLavingne to analysis.
This music video was made up with 3 different stories and
presented in video alternately.
Start
Piano plays the prelude ,at the same time, an established
shot of a big house and a couple standing outside the door is
presented. The color of the frame was dark and grey, it
hinted that is a sad story.
A close up of the man’ s face showed his sadness and a
medium close up of the woman showed she was crying . A
tilt from woman ‘s face to her belly, it hinted that she had
pregnancy .

2. When the song was started, a medium shot of the couple
who were featured showed they were clasping their hands
and looking at each other without saying anything.(lyric:
And the days feel like years when I'm alone).
The lyric said: When you walk away I count the steps that
you take, Do you see how much I need you right now? At this
moment, An established shot presented the man wearing
new army uniform and walking away the house .His wife just
still stood there and looked at his back .

3. A close up of the man’ s leg in slow motion showed he was
walking firmly with lots of misses.