3. Avicci - Levels
• The narrative of this video involves a boring man doing a job
he doesn't enjoy turning insane and therefore dancing until
he is restrained and sent to hospital. There, he releases some
form of plant from his mouth and infects the rest of the
hospital staff with “dancing fever”. This basic plotline proves
Carol Vernallis’ theory as this narrative is completely irregular
and makes very little actual sense.
4. Music videos are not always balanced
between narrative and performance
5. American Idiot – Green Day
In this music video for example, Green Day do
not observe or narrate but instead just solely
perform. This proves the theoretical point of
Carol Vernallis as it evidently points out an
imbalance between the visual aspects of
narrating and performing in these videos.
7. Evanescence – Bring me to Life
In this specific video, the ending leaves the audience
guessing if she is actually dead after falling off of a
building, as in the next jump cut shot she is asleep in her
bed.
8. Music videos often pose questions in
the narrative that are not answered
within the video
9. Thriller – Michael Jackson
In Thriller by Michael Jackson for example at the
end of the video, being a narrative as well as
performer throughout, Michael looks behind him
towards the camera, breaking the 4th wall and
reveals that what was first deemed to be fictional in
their world was not actually the case. Consequently
raising and therefore supporting Carol Vernallis’
theoretical points.
