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How can we describe and analyse narrative in your music video?

Our video for the song 'He Never Shows' by Pom-Pom Squad is a single strand narrative, focusing on only one story, as well as a linear narrative as the story is told chronologically. It follows Todorov's concept of the three-act structure, with an equilibrium, disequilibrium and a new equilibrium and a closed ending. The first act is of the character in her bedroom, in equilibrium, until the inciting incident moving through to act two. At the end of act one, the character receives a text message from her boyfriend - a proairetic event, as it leads the character to move on the narrative as she goes to meet up with him. Then in the third act, where the story is resolved, her boyfriend doesn't turn up. She throws her phone - a recurring device throughout the video - into the lake, where they were to meet. This is a symbolic code, representing the character moving on and creating a new equilibrium. Our video could be applied to Barthes' concept of open and closed texts, as our video resolves in the third act and has closure as any loose ends are tied up. 

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