Theory

We have chosen to use Tzvetan Todorov’s theory in our music video because it is a theory that can be used in any narrative. It was an easy way for us to understand how to structure the narrative of our video and for it to be an obvious flow of events so the audience understands the narrative more and willingly goes along with it. The state of equilibrium in our music video is at the beginning when all the students are in the class bored and everything is normal. The disequilibrium is then when the music starts and the girls jump up and leave their lesson because they want to go and have some fun. The recognition is when the teachers are chasing them outside of school and they are running away because this is when they recognise that it has changed as they are running and getting away from teachers trying to make them stay. The fix is that they are out having fun and doing what they like rather than being bored in school and that seems to be the new equilibrium that they are not going back to school and will instead have fun with their time. In fact though it ends with a return or restoration of the beginning of the video as they find themselves back in the classroom and it was all a dream.