A brief explanation of how Todorov's Narrative Theory can be applied to music videos.

1. Narrative Theory

2. 
Todorov believed that within the majority narrative
media lay 5 stages that made up the story that is
portrayed in the narrative. I found that this theory
could also be applied to many music videos. The 5
stages are:
 Equilibrium
 Disruption
 Realization
 Restored Order
 Equilibrium again/New equilibrium
Stages

3. 
Within Ed Sheeran’s music video ‘Give me Love’ we
start with an equilibrium where the female character is
depressed and lonely, watching other lovers and
longing to be in their position. This is the normality
(equilibrium) for this character in the narrative.
Equilibrium

4. 
Later during the video the woman gets an itch in her
back that she is desperately searching for. When she
finds the spot it is revealed that she is undergoing a
transformation into cupid and is growing a pair of
angle wings, as she removes a feather from her back.
Disruption

5. 
Just after this point in the narrative, the female
character realizes that she has transformed into Cupid
and takes it upon herself to try and adapt to this new
lifestyle by fashioning a bow and arrows to complete
the tasks of Cupid and make people fall in love.
Realization

6. 
This is the point in which the characters try to restore
order to what has happened. In the music video for
Give Me Love the character decides that she cannot
take this duty anymore and tries to commit suicide
using her own arrow, thus removing the disruption
from before.
Restored Order

7. 
Finally at the end of the video, it is shown that the
arrow in the female disappears as the male police
officers leans over her. This alludes to the the idea of a
new normality (equilibrium) in which the female
character has fallen in love with the male police officer.
New Equilibrium