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Two narratives are shown through this

video.

Narrative 1 Narrative 2

Amy Lee portrays the life of a model who promotesproducts by a company called "Lies". The music videofocuses on the struggles that Lee's character suffers withbecause of her modeling career and her opposite lifestyle.

During the bridge, two girls are seen laughing at themodel's appearance, stating that she looks much older

She is modeling for the food

industry, a company called LIES

by using a pizza, a fizzy drink, . The

company name reflects her life, and

how her career is based on lies.

As soon as the camera is turned off

it shows the reality of her life, she

is not the typical model, low key

lighting is used, low key colours all

reflect her life & mood. Walking

down the hallwa .

Photographer swarming around her

in photo-shoot, looks glamorous,

ideal woman & model, high key

lighting, rich & classy

Is in an elevator with two blonde

stereotypical ideal girls tauntinghow she actually looks, the rules

have flipped, in reality she should be

the perfect ideal girl as she is a model

but is seen as an outcast in

comparison to the other girls.

Two different adverts, 1stshe is on

a bike promoting a fizzy drink called

LIES 2nd - selling herself a doll

version of her with pink hair, quite

Japanese style. This relates to how

she is selling herself out.

Back in her room reflecting on her

day and her life, looking at billboard

and magazines with her face

plastered all over, she knows she

isnt really like that but she cant helpit anymore, the two lives she leads

are merging.

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than they thought she was. Another segment shows herbreaking a mirror with her bare hand, which starts to bleeduncontrollably. In the final scene, she stands on thebalcony of a building, crying and screaming at a billboardfeaturing one of her advertisements, saying that the modelside of her isn't "real and you can't save me", and thateverybody is oblivious to how she really lives ("you knowyou've got everybody fooled").(Wikipedia)

Theories

These theories are evidenced throughout this music video.

Levi Strauss There are a few binary opposites found inthis video such as Fantasy VS reality, Popular VSoutcast, Truth VS lies, Light VS dark

Barthes Enigmas & resolutions. Enigma Why does shehate her job? ResolutionShe is promoting lies.

Having looked at all of the evidence there are manyreasons why this music video has the narrativeconstructed this way. The reason for this is to show thetwo different lives that Amy Lees character leads,spinning a web of lies and how the two have merged in

her reality.

SummaryThis music video has shown us that an alternativenarrative can be used and still be easy to follow although itdoes not create verisimilitude. This is an option for us touse on our music video which will make it different to othergroups music videos.