Narrative Theory Applied To Music Video: Snap Out Of It- Arctic Monkeys

Using Bordwell and Thompsons diagram of story and plot the inferred events in this video is you know the woman and the lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys have broken up in the narrative. This is not shown in the video however we as an audience assume it has already happened because of the way the narrative in perceived during the video.

Tim O'Sullivan suggested that narratives in videos are a way of telling our own personal stories. As a culture many of us will be able to relate to most of the stories that are portrayed in particular music videos. For example most of the people who watch this video will have or will go through a break up at some point in their life and therefore will be able to relate to how the characters are feeling in the narrative.
The narrative helps us to understand the meaning to the lyrics. This is why it shows the typical conventions of a love/ break up song so it is easily identifiable to the audience.

According to Kate Domaille (2001) she said there are eight stories from the past that every narrative now revolves around and just re-creates it in a different way. These eight stories are Achilles, Candide, Cinderella, Circle, Faust, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet and Tristan and Iseult. The category that this video would fit into would be Orpheus because it is showing the loss of something personal because they have lost each other. However it also shows aspects of Romeo and Juliet because you know that before the break up there would have been the 'love story' that just wasn't included in the video it is there for the audiences own interpretation. But some of their 'Love story' is shown on the recordings that she is watching on her television. Like she is reflecting back on past memories.

Sven Carisson believed that music videos consist of either a performance clip or a conceptual clip. This video involves both to an extent. This video is mainly a conceptual clip because it shows other settings and locations other than just a performance. However it does show aspects of a performance clip as there are video recordings being shown of the band in their natural setting which is the studio. So even though the video is a narrative the band are performing as themselves within the video. However is it mainly a conceptual clip because it involves a narrative and even though the band are included in the video they never properly performing the song by Lip syncing and playing instruments which is something you would usually see in a performance  clip.

Tzentan Todrov suggested the 'Equilibrium of Diegesis' this was that a video would consist of Boy and Girl+ Disruption= Quest--> Resolution or Re- Equilibrium in some sort of way. This video shows aspects of this because the disruption is their break up which is for the majority of the video. The quest is her trying to get over him and then the resolution at the end of the video is her finally coming to terms withe their break up and finally relaxing and accepting the fact.