Propp studied character typology in fairy stories and found 31 character types, each with associated functions.
The most common of these characters are:
1. The hero
2. The villain
3. The donor (who would offer a gift of sort with magical properties)
4. The dispatcher (who gives the hero his mission)
5. The helper (the hero's 'right hand man')
6. The princess ('damsel in distress'/hero's reward)
Although Propp focused on characters of fairy stories, his work can be applied to a number of genres. Likewise to the 'Hollywood' narrative structure, it may prove difficult to work these characters and functions into a music video without drifting into a piece more suited to a trailer. Saying this, it would still be useful to take aspects of these character typologies with the possibility of including them into the video.
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