Narrative analysis applied to a music video

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night

This music video a perfect example of the narrative theory as throughout this music video Tim O'Sullivans (1998) theory has been proved as he argues that 'all media texts tells us some kind of story.’ As this tells a story about a young girl who is geeky and she goes to a party and gets transformed from been a geek to a pretty girl then reflecting her night, with the name of the song 'Last Friday night'. Katy Perry herself is performing her own song as the girl herself within the music video, this has aspects of performance. Bordwell and Thompson (1997) have two distinctions between story and plot which the audience actually see. The disruption happens at the beginning of the music video when she’s goes to the party and then from then on the narrative is told. There is a clear theme running throughout this music video which is teenage life which is shown throughout realistic teenager acts such as house party as this is what is related to teenagers. In according to verisimilitude this music video does appear to be what happens in real life and that it is very true to life. This music video is exactly what may happen at parties that people could relate to. Kate Domailles (2001) says that every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight narratives. This music video proves this theory as it is very similar to Cinderella as the stories are similar due to them both being ugly here with her braces and glasses and with Cinderella she dresses in rags and then both get transformed to beautiful girls.