Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion Cover Image

Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion
Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion

Author(s): Marek Ostrowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: music video; narration; theory of systems; production of sense; Celine Dion

Summary/Abstract: The narration in the music video to Celine Dion’s song All By Myself is a linearly organised construct or composition equipped with features of logicality, which organises specific linguistic or image-based material. It constructs a fiction based on the principles of dramatism. If one assumes that a music video can be analysed as a system which produces meaning, then the production occurs mainly within two dimensions. Firstly, as fiction, and secondly, as narration. The sequential editing adds significance to the entire film. The specific connection points of individual scenes influence the interpretation of the images by viewers – they extract the significance of a portion of the music video. Surely this phenomenon could be defined as a production of sense.

  • Issue Year: 58/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 95-111
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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