description of my narrative

1. ABSTRACT NARRATIVE
One piece of feedback about my music video is that it doesn’t
seem to have much of a narrative. Some of the scenes, particularly
the party scenes didn’t make sense to people within the product as
a whole because it didn’t seem to piece together. I am taking this
comment on board and am beginning to think of ways to make the
video flow more. However, it was my plan from the beginning of
this project to not have a particular narrative in my music video. My
treatment sheet states: “Hurricane will not show a chronological
story … Major themes of youth and independence are played on
as we join a group of young people at a Halloween party … The
destabilisation ofherlife is mirrored with that of a set narrative …
CHANGE is the key theme of ‘Hurricane’ music video.” I tried to
stick to this concept and rather than show a narrative, try to show
themes through the visuals relating to the lyrics (linking to
Goodwin’s genre theory). I will therefore explore the ways in which
I came to this conclusion.
Narrative is a key element of all film productions.Most will be
able to tell a story from beginning to end and leave the audience
without any major questions regarding what happened. However
there are forms of a more abstract narrative, wherein the
productionis more experimental.
I tried to portray this in my own production as I thought the
genre called for more of an abstract music video to accompany it.
Halsey, the artist of my chosen song, is representative of the
alternative genre, fitting more into the sub-genres of dream-pop
and indietronica. My extensive research into similar products
showed that many of them don’t particularly make sense to the
regular audience. The range of different scenes showing images
we wouldn’t necessarily understand or expect to see add to this
concept. Being slightly more limited, I still tried to pull off this effect
by using a bunch of different scenes and footage within my video
whilst incorporating my key themes of independence and
corruption. The original music video of my chosen song Hurricane
My research led me to a multitude of differentartists, all of
whom showed very different music videos whilst using the same
idea of an abstract narrative and a lack of a story.

2. LOVIT
MARIAN HILL
DIR. CHARLIE POLINGER

3. DREAM THE DARE
PURE BATHING CULTURE
DIR. HAYLEY MORRIS

4. ROYALS
LORDE
DIR. JOEL KEFALI