TIM O'SULLIVAN ET AL. 1998 - NARRATIVE

Tim O'Sullivan's theory of Narrative argues that all media texts tell us some kind of story.
Though through careful mediation, media texts offer a way of telling stories about ourselves- not usually our own personal stories but the story of us as a culture or set cultures.

Narrative
The structure of a story.

Mediation
All media is mediated through media language in terms of their ideology, this allows us to follow the narrative. Any media text reflects the ideology and views of its culture and the society which creates that media text.

Verisimilitude
The quality of appearing to be real or true. For the story to engage us it must appear to be real to us.

This theory of narrative relates to my media text on the basis that my media text will tell a story through its narrative and will be understood by its audience due to the mediation and the verisimilitude aspects. The identified conventions of Indie Rock involve using verisimilitude narrative, costume and location to identify with its preferred audience and also to be understood by a wider audience also. In my media text I want to create a Social Realism, therefore, by using Tim O'sullivan et al. theory of Narrative when constructing it, it will enable me to consider how my preferred audience will mediate my music video. Through the Narrative, the audience will experience the hidden undesirable behavior of our culture in today's life and will acknowledge the idea of un voiced accounts of happenings withing a relationship, especially that of a relationship that has broken down due to the effects of society.