1. Music video analysis
Love How It Hurts – Scouting for
Girls

2. What the Music Video is about?
 The music video links in with the song
with a nerdy boy trying to win over this
girl but keeps loosing her to a thug. He
does try to win her back by first making
her a mix tape that the thug subsequently
breaks. Then it fast forward 15 years and
he Is still trying to win her and he propose
to her but the thug throws the ring in the
sea and walks off with her but the video is
left on a cliff hanger as she pushes away
from the thug and looks at the both of
them

3. Characters
 They do use the Vladimir Propp saying during
this music video as you have the main
character the boy. Then you have the girl he
loves and there is the bad guy the thug and
you know these three are the main
characters as they are the only people to
appear in the music video. The video gets
across as well that the girls go for the thugs
who don’t care about them instead of the
nerds who would love them. Also that as
they grow older you know which character is
which because they wear the same clothes
so you don’t get lost on which one is which

4. Themes
 As said by Rick Altman they use both
Semantic and Syntactic elements in the
music video.
 Semantic elements that are use are the
clothes colours as the thug who is seen as
the bad guy wears black and dark blue and
these dark colours are seen as bad. Then the
good guy is wearing right colours so he is
seen as good and then that is the same with
the girl.
 Syntactic elements that is in this music video
is love and rejection