Zedd - Beautiful Now ft. Jon Bellion
The video starts with short clips to introduce the characters. With these clips it then becomes aware to the audience that there will be no lip syncing. This video is pure narrative, Goodwin states that All music videos follow at least one of three structures in his thoery; this music video is evidence of that.
After these short clips, there is a certain emphasis of an older man at 0:31. He is in the middle of some sort of hill land, and he shoos his horse away, this then creates the basis of the music video, and it is also when the equilibrium is disprupted.
The characters all have different stories, some are coping with love, the law, being lost and more so. It is a basic linear narrative which is stereotypical to this genre of music, as usually the emotions of the narrative will be matchiing to the tempo of the music.
The colour of the scene above is which is at 0:37to mimick the sound of the music; with the low saturation and dust in the air, it really gives the dry before the storm type of feeling. The long shot as well also gives a lost feeling in which I think the director was hoping the audience would interpet it as.
There are many eye level shots, however I was particularly interested in this high angle shot facing towards the ground, looking at the shadow of someone. In my opinion it adds to an atmospheric experience for the audience and to foward on the progression of the story and to furthermore incorporate a sign that the equilibrium is changing. todorov says that narrative has steps, and this music video gives his theory a meaning, when it explores several different people's stories at once, all with a starting point, a middle, and an ending.