The music video for the song 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias:

The music video for the song 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias:

• Narrative based music video.
• Vocal performance is integrated into the narrative.
• Extensive use of close-ups to sell the star image.
• Cut to the beat of the music. 
• Lyrics match the visuals, e.g. you can't take my breath away is sung as he lays dying. 
• John Stewart discusses the way music videos use the language of films and techniques such as montage and cross-cutting to tell their story.
• Andrew Goodwin discusses the way music videos have intertextual relationships to films and 'Hero' is based on a film called 'The Getaway'.

Narrative structures:

• Todorov:

Todorov states that narratives have five structures to them:

Equilibrium - Normality at the beginning - Enrique and Jennifer Love Hewitt are happy together in love.

Disruption - Disruption from the normality - We see the money in the back of the car and understand that something is wrong and they ust be escaping from something.

Acknowledgement - An understanding that a problem has occurred - Acknowledgement comes when we see a group of gangsters hiding out which infers that they are after our heroes.

Attempt to restore - The characters try to resolve their problems and move on - Enrique stands up for his girlfriend and rather than continue hiding, he faces the gangsters head on in a fight.

New equilibrium - Everything is resolved but the characters world is a slightly different place - Enrique dies, but Jennifer is free from the gangsters to continue her life without her lover.

• Vladimir Propp:

Vladimir Propp states that there are six different character types:

Hero, villain, princess, donor, false hero, helper.

Hero = Enrique - Camera time focuses on him the most. Soft lighting to make him look more angelic and heroic.
Villain = Mickey Rourke - All black leather, greased back hair, surrounded by his gang, less camera time, hides his face away from the camera.
Princess = Jennifer Love Hewitt - Crying. close-ups of her kissing Enrique in soft focus. Extended camera time on the couple together clearly in love.

• Claude Levi-Strauss:

Binary opposition - You need to see opposites to be able to tell the difference :

Hero/Villain.
White/Black.
Extended camera time/Hides his face from the camera.
Strength weakness.
Feminine soft male/Hard uglier masculinity.
Kindness/Evil.