The storyline of our video

"The set of all the events in the narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers, compose the story."
Bordwell & Thompson

The video is going to be based on the relationship between a boy and two girls and the extent that girls will go to to receive attention from the male gender. This relates back to the songs title- womaniser and reinforces the lyrics to the song. The video will include typical conventions that are found in pop videos and exagerated acts to gain attention. As the target market of this video is most probable to be teenage girls they can relate to the video and will understand the humour of it. Similar to Pinks- stupid girls video, the scenes re-created in the video will be over the top and extreme to make the video interesting and amusing to watch.
The narrative of our story fits in with some of Roland Barthes 5 action codes, which enable an audience to make sense of a narrative. The 2 concepts the video meets is;
Hermeneutic (narrative turning point)
The story line is one that we are familiar with, the typical girls chasing boy scenario. Because we are known to this type of narrative (intertextuality) the viewer knows where the story will go next. We will use this action code to our advantage and follow this theme up to the end of the video. At this point the viewer is pretty much positive that they know what will happen as this has been the case for the whole video. However at the end of the video we will surprise the audience with something they don't expect to happen. We will then be following Levi Strauss's concept of bricolage where we will use the process of 'deletion'- taking something typical of a genre out.