Narrative analysis Reebok advert

Narrative analysis Reebok advert

Narrative analysis: Narrative analysis is when one or more speaker is involved in sharing and recounting a specific event or experience that has happened. Narrative analysis can also be in a story since there are many twists and turns the character or narrator may have a conversation about common structural features.

Todorovs 5 stages

50 Cent

Equilibrium- The advert starts off with 50 Cents home town in his neighbourhood daily routine showing us his street from his childhood just like any other ordinary day.

Disruption- The disruption in the advert was when the advert shows signs of dripping water with the red lighting as we hear a gunshot and see 50 Cent bend down forward which lets us know that 50 Cent has been shot and has then caused a disruption in his daily routine.

Recognition of disruption- The recognition of the disruption was when the advert played sounds of distress such as police and ambulance sirens which indicates the recognition of 50 Cent being shot.

Attempt to repair disruption- The attempt to repair disruption was when 50 Cent looks at his reflection in the water reflecting back on his past as we then hear a rewind sound as the camera reverses backwards which tells us that 50 Cent realises he has a second chance to make something of himself.

Reinstate of equilibrium- Then the reinstate of equilibrium is when we see 50 Cent counting up to 9 as we hear all the success and fame he has obtained as it finishes with the words ‘I am what I am’ which then shows his reinstate of equilibrium.