Today in our media lesson all the different groups presented their ideas on different narrative-based music videos. The one i feel was the best, was the song 'Stylo' by 'Gorillaz' as seen below.
This is a really interesting music video, as the audience is never left with any answers, they are always left with posed questions. Who are they? where are they going? where have they come from?
This connotes the Roland Barthes theory of Enigma. Which means that at the start of any media text, the audience is left with a question that needs to be answered throughout the rest of the text. Nevertheless, in this particular music video, that/those questions are never answered.
This influenced our idea a little and helped us develop it. The audience for our music video will be posed with similar questions, who is this man? why is he so depressed? but the questions will not be answered by the video, they will be answered through the lyrics of the song, which carry the narrative.
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