Personal Reflection of Project

I had a lot of fun with the project this year, but discovered there were a lot of stressful moments and A LOT went wrong. However, as a group we have coped well with all the troubles that occur ed. Although I strongly think that if I/we were to do this project again, we would do many things differently. Most of all, I would have done more work into the styling as I personally think it could have been planned better. And also work more with photo shop in terms of practicing before creating our subsidiary tasks, which would inevitably make them much better if we were more skilled in the software. The preparation for this project in terms of finding band members and scheduling has made me realise how tedious it is. As Jam was in charge of organising people in our last course work project, I didn't really realise that during filming and photo shoots it is an essential aspect that makes things a lot smoother to work with. Blogging was also another very tedious aspect, and if I were to do this again I would definitely keep entries going at a regular basis! Thank god this is done!

Notice/Reminder of Subsidiary Tasks

As we have little time left to do the coursework, we as a group have decided to move onto the subsidiary task (although someone during each lesson will continue to do a little bit of editing on the final music video).

For our subsidiary task, we have chosen to do...

• A Digipak for the single, including front and back cover and insides, with all rnecessary logos/credits.
• A magazine poster advertising the single and digipak, which will be linked to the digipak in terms of aesthetics but will not be the same.

As with the final video, research will be done seperately, but shared at idea discussions. At this point it is clear to us that the drawing used for the green screen will be used in either of the two subsidiary tasks.

Our Narrative in relation to Narrative Theories

Tzvetan Todorov's theory that narrative's follow a generic cycle of events fit into ours as we have a clear narrative plot line with no twists (it would be cool if we did, but that would only complicate the video). The Equilibrium is the male character; Jack's peaceful state when he is content with his binge drinking, drug abusing life style. A problem is caused when the female character (Agent of Disruption) tries to make the male character realise what he's doing to himself is wrong. This puts the male character in a Disequilibrium as the two friends argue, showing a state of confusion. The male character then acknowledges the problem, seeks to solve and finds his friend. Both protagonists and the story line reaches a new equilibrium/harmony when they have a renewed and stronger friendship.

Vladimir Propp's typology theory of narrative structures does not fit as there is not enough characters in our music video. Moreover, our characters do not venture on a quest, and a music video does not last long enough to include all characters along side performance. If we were to make this theory fit, we could have our performers act as the other characters, and merge narrative and performance together. This would be interesting as it would contrast music video conventions of having narrative separate to performance. However, it could be done and researched on, as other artists have become the narrative character before.

Levi-Strauss' theory of binary oppositions only works when there is an outwardly struggle between characters, such as good versus evil. In a sense, the idea of self-abusing lifestyle versus the righteous and moral lifestyle could also be a binary opposition in our music video, but it is not a clear theme and would only be prevalent in mentality, and that in itself is a very forced idea to fit into the theory.