Narrative

Narrative

Basically within the music video, black widow, the story line is based in an American diner which features 2 ladies and 1 man, this is because the man is extremely rude and disrespectful, within this he is wearing his American cowboy boots and he steps on a black widowed spider, this then gets into an argument which ends up with the waitress getting stick, she then goes in the kitchen to cook him a better sandwich, this then leaves her day dreaming about her and Rita Ora going out to kill the man as he’s been disrespectful on both of their parts, this shows us that he is the antagonist and the two ladies (Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora) who are the protagonists, this is shown as they are black widows on the hunt to kill the man.  They have a set amount of targets to do this and how long they have to do it.

They’re wearing a body suit to connote that they’re super heroes and they’re out to kill the bad guy insinuating the guy at the start who kills a black widow and treats the two girls like muck on the floor. The antagonist character is the male because of how he acts throughout the music video; the protagonist is the two ladies who are out to kill the bad guy.

The story takes place in a real world, like an everyday lifestyle with real scenarios so it makes the music video look real and the narrative look real. The first part of the music video looks real then we get interrupted by Iggy having a dream of what she would do if she was a superhero, she would go out and kill the bad guy, the dream does not look that real but is put there as an effect. Todarov,1977  tells us that the video goes in stages… the stages are as followed, stage one is where everything takes place as where in reality which would be 2 people going into an American diner, and getting service by the waitress. Stage two is as followed as there is a disruption within the clip; this is where she has a dream that she is going to be a superhero. Stage 3 following the dream would be that she gets action involved within the dream, this is where they’re playing cards and Rita kicks the guy off his chair this is also when they find out that the targets the guy. Stage four is where they defeat the bad guy and become successful, and stage five is where she comes back into reality and knows where she is as this is where stage one left off. Kate Domaille (2001) says that every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight narrative types. Now the black widow is fitted into the Candide: The indomitable hero who cannot be put down, this is where the two lady superheroes are that skilled and have so much skill that they will never be killed as

you saw at the end when the guy had a gun and they had swords and they still had a way to defeat him.