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

Marek Ostrowski
2020 Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica  
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
more » ... ignificance 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.
doi:10.18778/1505-9057.58.06 doaj:46ebdae6f67d43a98f77639c10848f00 fatcat:632snbsnvjckbn56wtbvlakpv4