SING My Chemical Romance

The storyline is the band breaking into a large building, which is the headquarters of a company called BL INDustries. The company has taken the child of the lead singer, and the breaking in is a rescue mission. The band uses deadly force against the soldiers of the company, and manages to save the child. However, they all die in the attempt, but the child escapes.

The main storyline is a linear story, and follows Todorovs theory of narrative, because it has an Equilibrium (The child is kidnapped), a Disruption (The child is rescued) and a Re-Equilibrium (the child escapes and the band dies.) The storyline is told from a third person view, occasionally switching to a characters perspective, for example when the lead singer is shot, and the view switches to the rest of the bands points of view as they are killed. Propps spheres of action apply here, however there are not so many of them used in the music video, there is a hero (the band), a villain (BL INDustries) a helper (the weapons),

a princess (the child), however there is not father, false hero or dispatcher. Levi Strauss narrative theory is used in this video, because binary opposition is used, in the same Good vs Evil way, with the band and the BL INDustries soldiers representing each respectively. Barthes theory is the Enigma Code, and this video uses enigmas, as the audience is wondering why the band is storming the headquarters, and why the child has been kidnapped, and throughout the video these enigmas are answered. The video has been structured in this way to create tension and suspense mainly by not answering until the very end of the film if the child will survive. The childs escaping from the kidnappers creates a sense of relief, but sadness and mourning is created by the death of the heroes (the band). The aim of the video is to create the feelings previously mentioned.