Narrative Notes

Tim O'Sullivan (1998)

* All media texts tells us some kind of story 

* It was carefully tells a stories about ourselves- not usually our own personal stories but our stories as a culture or set of cultures. 

* Narrative theory sets  out to show that what we experience. We read stories to understand a particular set of construction, or conventions and that it is important to be aware of how these construction are out together

Music videos are adverts, this is from the mise-en-scene 

ABBA

First pre recorded band 

Their songs relate to their lives 

* The first Video to make on video not film was Queen- 'bohemian rhapsody'

When it was realise the video became more popular than the song

Live performance,

Costume 

Make up

Instruments 

Spot lights

Close ups

Fade in out

Jump cuts

Special effects

Tropes- established signs identifiable with a form/ genre 

Television would see it 

MTV (early 80s)

First Video "video killed the radio star"

Michael Jackson 

" due to my soon We sonar convictions, I wish to stress that this film 

Thriller video cost $1m the best special effects at the time also the biggest selling album of all time 

Narrative twist - second diegesis it was actually a film