Summer Project: coursework planning
1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a 150-word close-textual analysis of SIX TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below). TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the TikTok video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the TikTok video? In this TikTok we see the story of an artist who talks about his past in a band and how they split up but he managed to go solo and have some success. This TikTok is a perfect example of a use of narrative as we can apply Todorov’s Equilibrium theory : The equilibrium = he’s in a successful band doing concerts, Disequilibrium = the band split up and New Equilibrium = he goes solo and gains a million streams (he’s successful). The use of narrative could make the audience feel a...