I will be using the Narrative method for this video found on YouTube channel, Nail Career Education and creator Suzie creates these beautiful gothic nail design at the request of one of her avid followers. The Narrative method which can be a storytelling style based on reality or fiction and depending the context of the story can make or break a good story. This is a short but fun narrative. Suzie creates a nail design based on one of her fans, who Suzie call a “very persistent viewer”, who has been requesting gothic designs on nails.
Suzie explains in this tutorial that she wasn’t too familiar with gothic style regarding nails, and so she does research (as she reality does) and stays up to 2 am preparing for this gothic nail design. She presents her set in a gothic themed ambiance and includes music which lends to the gothic theme of this video. She has asked her niece who is follows the gothic lifestyle to fill in as her nail model and who represents a gothic style. She researched the types of styles and colors that can be considered gothic. This video is based on reality, as this is a very technical and artistic tutorial on how to get these nails.
When viewing the video, I recognized that the narrative here is not only about the gothic design, but also the beauty behind gothic designs and the variety of style within the gothic look. Suzie goes all out with this design, and provides an inspiration using this design. I can honestly say before watching this video, I thought this was for Halloween, but as I watched it, I felt that Suzie really captured the amazing beauty behind rich dark colors and can be worn whenever throughout the year.
The music added to this video along with the background setting, lighting, digital enhancement (fake smoke) all came together to fit the narrative of this gothic nail design tutorial. Suzie will usually go into a step by step section of a tutorial when creating the base of the nail and the length with monomer and acrylic powder. However, she ended up fast forwarding up to the design of these nails, I fell that this was a smart move on her part, as creating this design requires so many steps already, adding more steps could be overwhelming to some viewers. This applies to beginner DIYer nail techs.
I have to say I’m inspired by this video, even though my style is almost the complete opposite, this design shows a whole new view on how gothic can be absolutely beautiful! I would even wear what her niece is wearing. To conclude this was a great tutorial and I may try this look on myself come this fall, I can’t give up my bright spring and summer colors when I just got them out. I hope you check out this video, please see the video included above or click the link here, and as always, I hope you enjoy!
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This criticism post number four based on the narrative method appears to be pretty comprehensive. Based on my understanding of the method, you hit all the critical high points. My only recommendation is to do a double edit specifically for grammar.
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Thank you for the feedback, I’ll definitely work on my editing!
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You do address the theme (gothic) here, and it’s easy to tell what happens in the overall episode. That’s all working well, and your video is embedded well, again.
This is not, however, applying the narrative method. I would recommend skipping this one as part of your final post. To revise it, you’d need to go through and use the method for it. You’ve looked at one element of the story (the theme), but you aren’t assessing whether she tells a good story or not, what parts there are (e.g., characters, plot, conflict, etc.). I think it may be possible to do that here, given that she was petitioned to create this, then goes into creating a story in reaction to that. But narrative isn’t the primary force here, and that’s why you ended up reaching a bit.
Easy fix: skip this one for the final. You have others that work better. No biggie — sometimes a method doesn’t work for us. That’s okay 🙂
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