For our video we found it very difficult to plan out step by step how our video was going to flow from section to section. Due to our use of animation opposed to filmed footage creating a set story board was more difficult then expected. As we collected various images and photographs and planned to use the animation tools that were possible on Adobe Premiere Pro we made a basic outline of how our video was going to form. Our track 'Chorus Of Fools' is about a relationship that is dying out and being reformed again; due to this we obviously wanted to portray this as our main theme and by doing this we wanted to use our photographs and animation to tell the story.
Narrative Theories
Todorov is a Bulgarian structuralist, mainly concerned with linguistic who began to produce influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards. I believe that his theory relates greatly to my video, Chorus of Fools by The Crookes. His theory consists of three parts Equilibrium, Dis-Equilibrium and New-Equilibrium. The Equilibrium is the normal state of the beginning of the text. My video has a clear beginning; the couple are introduced, their love for each other is made very clear by animations such as love hearts and doves. However, as we reach the middle of the song we see the ‘Dis-Equilibrium’ this is when we see a break up in the happy couples relationship. We made this clear by having animation of pictures torn up, rain and clouds (pathetic phallacy) and sad faces. There is then a clear ending ‘New-Equilibrium’ this is when the couple resolve their conflict and their love for each other is rekindled. This is again clearly reinforced by the animations that we used. I believe for these reasons Todorov narrative theory relates greatly to my video.
Todorov is a Bulgarian structuralist, mainly concerned with linguistic who began to produce influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards. I believe that his theory relates greatly to my video, Chorus of Fools by The Crookes. His theory consists of three parts Equilibrium, Dis-Equilibrium and New-Equilibrium. The Equilibrium is the normal state of the beginning of the text. My video has a clear beginning; the couple are introduced, their love for each other is made very clear by animations such as love hearts and doves. However, as we reach the middle of the song we see the ‘Dis-Equilibrium’ this is when we see a break up in the happy couples relationship. We made this clear by having animation of pictures torn up, rain and clouds (pathetic phallacy) and sad faces. There is then a clear ending ‘New-Equilibrium’ this is when the couple resolve their conflict and their love for each other is rekindled. This is again clearly reinforced by the animations that we used. I believe for these reasons Todorov narrative theory relates greatly to my video.
Story Board
1) Section One- The introduction to the narrative. Due to our video being in the form of narration and the track having a clear story line we wanted to create the feeling of the relationship being a fairytale a 'story'. Due to this aspect we decided to start our video with the opeing of a book named 'The Crookes', with the story 'Chorus Of Fools' this makes the narrative clear and also ties in with The Crookes relationship to Literature. The book is the only film footage that we have but due to the overlapping animation it still works well with the rest of the video being animation.
1) Section One- The introduction to the narrative. Due to our video being in the form of narration and the track having a clear story line we wanted to create the feeling of the relationship being a fairytale a 'story'. Due to this aspect we decided to start our video with the opeing of a book named 'The Crookes', with the story 'Chorus Of Fools' this makes the narrative clear and also ties in with The Crookes relationship to Literature. The book is the only film footage that we have but due to the overlapping animation it still works well with the rest of the video being animation.
2. Section Two- this is where the audience is introduced to the couple who feature throughout the music video. As the track progresses the lyrics and visuals match as the couple look back on their past relationship, happy memories of the couple walking down 'Love Lane'.
3. Section Three- this is where we wanted to create the sense of time passing. As the song recalls looking on the past we thought that the animation of a clock would be the most appropriate and effective way of conveying time passing. With the relationship changing, the dove flying across represents the "happy" couple also travelling with time.
4. Section Four- Here is where the couple our at their happiest and strongest, their wedding day. We thought this would be the best, most romantic way to convey the love that the couple used to share. Using cupid as an added symbol of love and using the flowers to create the added mood of passion.
5. Section Five- This is where we see a turn for the worst in the couples relationship. As the lyrics change to reflect negative feelings of the relationship we knew that we had to change the feeling of the visuals too, again to match the visuals with the lyrics. To represent this we used pathetic phallacy; bad weather acting as a warning to a bad storm in the relationship. We also split the photograph in half to act symbolic as the break in the relationship.
6. Section Six- this is the section where the relationship begins to return to how it used to be. As the couple reflect more on the past they see the fun that they used to have, looking back on memories at the beach, with their friends and generally living life together, happy. Again we matched the visuals with the lyrics.
7. Section 7- This is where the couple look back at their childhood memories. When they first fell in love, it acts as the point in which their love for eachother is rekindled.
8. Section Eight- As the track quickens in pace we decided to reverse some of our animition feautured earlier to portray the couple going back on the good times in their relationship and forgetting the past.
9. Section Nine- This is the final part of the video. Here we again finished with the filmed footage of the book, this time it closing with a cliched happy ending. The heart animation representing their rekindled love.
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