Examine the narrative devices and structure use in Alt J - Breezeblocks
When examining Alt J's music video for their song Breezeblocks, there are so many aspects to the video that make it narratologically interesting to the eye. It includes a non-chronological story line however with the narrative still being closed, the ending manages to still satisfy. This is also due to the inclusion of a linear narrative but in reverse. It can be detected that the music video includes a varied version of Todorovs' concept of narrative. This being an Equilibrium, Disequilibrium and New Equilibrium. Because of the edit and reverse effect on the video it is harder to establish which part matches each act of Todorov's theory, however in my perspective I see that the New Equilibrium is that the female lays dead in the bath, this is at the beginning, but the video then allows the audience to see how the character got into this situation originally, then showing the fight as the Disequilibrium and the Equilibrium of the man gone. I think looking at it from this perspective it makes it narratologically understanding.
I believe that the key codes of this video is that it is Proairetic, this meaning within the video there is an event or moment that drives the narrative on, this for me being the first scene, and then throughout the fight scenes, I think it entices the audience to continue watching, questioning how did it end up in death. Specific Proairetic and symbolic shots for me include the male with his head in hands, following onto the knife and then to the shot of the mans hands but focused on the ring, as if allowing a narratives questions to be answered, like they know each other, they are most probably a married couple breaking.
Another way you could see this use of reverse is by concluding it as a narrative devise to allow the male character to endure a flashback of the fight and what he did to end up in the pain he is in and the outcome he now has to deal with, not just allowing the audience the reason for the female characters death. A third devise is quite obviously conflict, the narrative consists of this, it is made up and from a series of intense build up of conflict.
I believe that the key codes of this video is that it is Proairetic, this meaning within the video there is an event or moment that drives the narrative on, this for me being the first scene, and then throughout the fight scenes, I think it entices the audience to continue watching, questioning how did it end up in death. Specific Proairetic and symbolic shots for me include the male with his head in hands, following onto the knife and then to the shot of the mans hands but focused on the ring, as if allowing a narratives questions to be answered, like they know each other, they are most probably a married couple breaking.
Another way you could see this use of reverse is by concluding it as a narrative devise to allow the male character to endure a flashback of the fight and what he did to end up in the pain he is in and the outcome he now has to deal with, not just allowing the audience the reason for the female characters death. A third devise is quite obviously conflict, the narrative consists of this, it is made up and from a series of intense build up of conflict.
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