Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Narrative arc- Taylor swift "Black Space"


Exposition:
At the beginning it's all about her meeting a charming a new guy and making them fall in love.
Mise en scene- She is wearing a black dress, this symbolises two different things. One being her female affection side showing why this guy would find her attractive and the second being the colour black symbolises that she's danger. Also she's is always wearing red lipstick showing her danger but passionate self. 

Rising action:
The rising action in this music video is wear there relationship is going well and there doing cute relationship activities, there both happy in there relationship. 
Taylors outfits become more colourful and brighter showing it's all well and she's portrayed as a normal bright innocent girl. 
There is also a notion of looking through her eyes(Andrew Goodwin)

Climate:
Then she finds out he's also texting someone else, therefore she feels betrayed and loosing her temper. She turns into some crazy girl and in this she goes back to wearing red clothes, showing her anger and danger ahead.

Falling action:
Then she turns crazy and upset, she turns into a mad girl who can't control herself and starts cutting all his things up. 
This is stereotypically what pop teen girls do when they get heart broken from a boy, therefore they can relate to it. 
Mise en scene: She's goes back to wearing black to show danger of her but has a white background to show really she's a innocent girl who doesn't mean harm.

Denouement:
At the end it shows a new guy turning up at her house exactly like the beginning but a new boy. This is showing that her love life is a vicious cycle that keeps repeating itself.
Again this is stereotypically what happens in a teen girls love life so they'd feel like they can relate therefore liking the music video. 
Ends with a close up of her face, as if she knows about it all but she almost enjoys it all in a weird way. Again with the red lipstick portraying this one is going to be like the last and be passionate but theres danger ahead.

This shows that the music video follows the narrative arm as it has 5 section. The story also goes along with the lyrics, and the tittle "blank space" is talking about her having a pace in her heart which is blank which she's always trying to fill it over and over again.

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