Narrative in Music Video

After deciding between two songs for our music video, we chose the song ‘Superman by Barry Gledden’, which is an upbeat tune, with a catchy positive chorus and female vocals about the relationship between a girl and her superman lover. We came to this conclusion since the team had brilliant fun and exciting narrative ideas for the lyrics. The lyrics have also given us the opportunity to express the humour in our video, as the lyrics are very metaphorical, and exaggerated. We have created an outline of what we want the narrative in our music video to include.

• Female looking for the right boyfriend.


• She goes on dates with a number of different boys from punks, to gangsters to geeks, in the same restaurant, at the same time on different days!


• The scene in the restaurant remains the same but the boys change, and the roses seem more wilted in each scene.


• But of course she chooses the best looking boy, but he ends up to be the most big headed boy, and doesn’t really care about her.


• However, the Geek that she dated really likes her and is the ‘real superman’. (He is seen in the background of most scenes wearing a baggy superman t-shirt)


• As the video goes on, the geek appears to be better looking.


• The girl begins to notice him again.


• After a number of awful dates with her new boyfriend she is bored and leaves him, he doesn’t care as he is too busy looking at himself.


• Finally she gets with ‘Superman’!


• Want the video to also include animated shots, which have been influenced by legendary comics and Superman cartoons. For example, speech bubbles and signs that stress the sounds