The second question we asked was 'Can you briefly describe what happens in our music video?'
This question is very important as it allows the audience to tell us how they interpret the narrative and the music video. Because we are so wrapped up in production and our own meanings, we might not have been successful in portraying some feelings and messages that we are trying to put across to the audience.
Most of the "narratives" that were described, was the actual narrative of our music video. For example 'The boy is getting ready for date, girl doesn't come, he gets angry and starts breaking things and then goes to her house', 'Man is expecting date excitedly - he's obsessed perhaps - and is stood up and heartbroken', 'unrequited love'
However, only one person included the dolls into their answer. 'Puppets represent what happens in real life. The guy is being stood up and so he goes crazy'. This is very significant as maybe the way we show the dolls in our music video is not obvious in what they are representing. They are representing the emotions and actions of the boy, however maybe it is right that our audience didn't include this in their narrative.
Your own use of media terminology is apt. SG
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