As in Music Videos, a backstory is generally used to visually excite the audience and to make the music video seem interesting to watch. This could be done through a variety of ways and after viewing the Arctic Monkey's music video 'Fluorescent Adolescent' on Youtube I liked the way they used the extras in dressed up as clowns as it also made the music video look visually interesting and created an artistic backstory.
Therefore I decided to use this convention and developed it into the 'fake' theme in my own music video by making the band members wear masks in some parts of the backstory where the band are meant to be mimicking and mocking a stereotypical fake band.
You must make sure you don't waffle. "Visually excite the audience" doesn't mean very much. Try to be much more specific about the conventions you chose to copy in your music video. If you think there was a narrative element then say so. I think it was more thematic in your video rather than narrative anyway. You could point out more about why clowns were chosen in both videos.
ReplyDeleteYou don't explain what a "stereotypically fake band is". What other conventions did you use/challenge in your music video and your ancillary tasks? You need to be specific about a number of elements across all your media. What you have here isn't enough.
ReplyDeleteBackstory doesn't mean what you think it means.
ReplyDeletehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/backstory