Ed Sheeran- narrative case study- EDITED AS OF 28/03/17

Ed Sheeran's music video for the a team is an example of circular narrative which allows for the story to be developed. The video also uses flashbacks to allow for the audience to see the context of the story that is within the music video. The lyrics and visuals also link to each other which conforms to part of Goodwin's Theory. As well as this the artist's original idea for the video which for Ed Sheeran's A team is homelessness and the effects of being homeless can be conveyed through the visuals and the lyrics.

Characters and their costumes

Starting actors list 

Mind Map of our characters 

initial actors needed list

We chose to use stereotypes in our music video as this would allow us to explore gender and age as well as having a binary opposition between the different stereotypes as well as the genders that play those stereotypes. We believe that this will enhance the opposition that is included in our video but also a variety of diversity. This will allow us to evaluate our work better by having having more to talk about within our video.

Annotated lyrics- Firehorse Bloodstream - EDITED AS OF 20/02/17

annotated lyrics

annotated lyrics

annotated lyircs

Annotated lyrics

These are our annotated lyrics in which we have multiple a3 sheets with them on which also feature what we want in each different shots. (These are featured in an earlier blog post.) We also want to feature how they relate to the themes of the song such as drugs and the effects of alcohol which is featured in this picture of our lyrics from the song Bloodstream.
We will link the lyrics to the visuals in our music video by inferring the effects of drug taking and
 then having them completely undone which isn't glorifying drug/ alcohol abuse rather allowing for the audience to briefly see the effects (Bella's character being passed out) but not ruining the ambiance of our music video.
We will make our video appropriate for our constructed audience by not explicitly showing drug taking but showing the effects of it therefore inferring that the character had taken drugs and consumed alcohol.