The video’s narrative will start with the male character walking the girl character home after a date. This immediately show’s conformity to Claude Levi-Strauss’ narrative theory of binary opposites as it shows the opposite of boy Vs girl. It will then show him walking away from her front door without kissing her. The video will then turn performance based as he starts regretting his decision. Through this it could be argued that we are challenging Todorov’s approach to narrative theory as the video starts at disequilibrium and then revisits the equilibrium throughout the video. The male lead will then begin to have flashbacks of their previous date. It will start with them meeting on their date and showing the enjoyment they both had whilst on the date. Their will then be a number of other flashbacks showing the date to the audience. One flashback will be showing the male lead reaching out to hold the female leads hand but then pulling away right at the last minute. It will then continue to the performance as he reviles a photo strip from his pocket, which will be used as an intertextual reference to the Justin Biber song mistletoe. We will use voyeurism in the narrative at this point as the camera video will stop at every point there would be a picture. This will be the last flashback as it makes the artist realise that he needs to go back. This is where we will use the intertextual reference to love actually. The artist will then be walking towards the girl’s house with a stereo and placards in his hands the exact same way as the film does. He will then show the girl the placards one by one but instead of showing the text from love actually it will show the lyrics to the song. Also similar to the film the girl will stay at the door while the boy walks away but as he does so chases down the street and kisses him.
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