Narrative theories

Tim O'Sullivan- (1998) argues that all media text tells us some kind of story.

•    media texts offer a way of telling stories about our selves-not usually our own personal stories, but the stories of us as a culture or set of culture.
• Narrative-the structure of a story.
• diegesis
• verisimilitude.

Pam Cook (1985) the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have:

• linearity of causes and effect
• high degree of narrative closure
• a fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spatial and temporal coherence.

 Todorov-

• Equilibrium
• Disequilibrium
• Recognition
• Action
• Restoration  

Kate domaille (2001) every story told ever.. falls into one of eight narrative types.

• Achilles
• Candide
• Cinderella
• Circe
• Faust
• Orpheus
• Romeo and Juliet
• Tristan and iseult

Claude levi-struass (1958) he believed all stories operated under clear binary opposites e.g. good vs. evil. Black vs. White Rich vs. poor

Conventions of an indie pop music video

Indie pop is best described as a fusion of pop and indie rock in that.. it isn't as raw and gritty to be a full on indie rock genre but it is also not as upbeat and more independent to be a pop song.

The conventions of this genre are reminiscent of both of these genres as it were. the colour scheme will not be as dark and gritty as a standard indie rock video but also wont be as bright and upbeat as a normal pop video. the pace of the editing tends to be slower than both of these genres as the tempo of the songs is a lot slower. for example all of these songs fall into the indie pop genre, followed by videos from pop/indie rock.

Jewel Case vs Digipak

Although both can be distinguished as the same thing, there are quite noticeable differences that can be found between a traditional CD jewel case and a more modern Digipak. One of the main differences that is instantly noticeable is the material that they are both made off.


Jewel Case
These tend to be made of 100% plastic and in the older designs only have two sides (outside front and back) worth of artwork and usually contain a small handbook full of band related Photos, lyrics and news. Due to the material they are much more durable compared to Digipaks, however lack the authentic feel and appear more 'produced' compared to the nicer-more collectable feeling Digipaks.

Digipaks
Digipaks are more for the collectors, this reason being they feel more authentic and usually contain more inserts and special merchandise and so appeals to the more serious fans. these inserts could include posters, hand written lyrics, miscellaneous objects and special artwork that is limited to the digipak design. digipaks can have various amount of panel's ranging from 4 sides all the way up to 16 therefore this gives them a much better advantage for artists to express their designs to there audience as they have much more physical space to do so.

Music Video analysis

Music video analysis from Liambest34