Analysis of our video in terms of narrative

Our music video is mainly narrative based, but there is also a lot of performance, however the two are linked. There is certainly a specific beginning, middle and end. The beginning of the narrative is with Caitlin jumping around showing her mental instability. The middle of the narrative is Matt being followed both mentally and physically by Caitlin, and the end is when Caitlin ends up with complete control of Matt as he walks out of the performance.

The fact that ending is shown in the performance suggests a clear link between the two sides, both performance and narrative. The aim of our narrative story was that there is a lunatic (as to the words of the song) in the form of Caitlin. She then wants to control Matt and goes about this by getting inside of his head, following him, and this is shown through the opacity shots and others. We then aimed to end the narrative with Caitlin either murdering Matthew, or controlling him, and we felt the way Matt left the performance, and is next seen in the warehouse with Caitlin showed this quite well.

Our narrative was experimental, we had a brief idea of what we wanted to achieve but the shots we got on the recording days would decide on the real story behind the narrative. A lot is left to the imagination of the audience but the above is a clear idea of what we were trying to achieve. There is a basic and consistent idea running all the way through our video, and we stuck with just one main idea as the video could have got confusing otherwise.



Billy Greenall.