Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Short narative essay of Rockstar by NIckleback


NIckelback -- Rockstar

Through Tim O’Sullivan’s theory where ever media text has a story, this song can be applied to the theory as the story is about becoming a big rock star with money and everything you could want. The song lyrics explain in detail the main aspects of what the average person would want when they have loads of money being famous. Within the video there is a huge variety of people that are singing the song, this shows that it relates to a very wide range of ages and both genders. In terms of verisimilitude the video relates very well to the public as most of the idea that the song has about money and fame is what most of the public would have themselves. From the possible 8 types of narrative a music video can have, Rockstar has a more Cinderella effect, by this the dreams of what the people are wanting come true.

The narrative of the video through Todorov’s equilibrium of diegesis with the distribution of someone’s life with the dreams that they want, they then go on about what they are wanting to get and how they will get it (quest), but they don’t get what they are dreaming of, they only speak about it. But they seem happy about it and accept it, the song is for IF they were able to buy their life and fame with money.

Sven Carlson’s theory of every video falls into two types of videos, performance or conceptual clips, this song, Rockstar, falls into the conceptual clip type. This is because the video is more entertaining to watch the video itself than listen to the song. The conveying mood of becoming famous and having everything you could want. Stuart Halls reception theory is where the audience see a video in different ways due to encoded messages throughout a video. Most audiences are dominant, this means that they agree with the ideology of the video and song, there are a oppositional viewers which say the video is a stretch too far as people wouldn’t get the chance to any of the things in the video and that it increases peoples hopes too much when they will never achieve.

 

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