Work So Far

This past week, whilst Jack, Claire and I have been updating our blogs with target audience research and looking at the potential music channels and platforms that could show our finished music video, Charlotte (the only artist among us!) has been drawing out the images for our animatic to be uploaded onto our blogs. This will show our ideas drawn out alongside our track, so that we can see how our video will pan out in terms of scenes, shots and timings.

How The Story Will Pan Out

Story Outline

A girl has has committed suicide by overdose because she saw her boyfriend with another girl and has now been dumped by text. The new couple now rub their relationship in her face i.e. laughing at her behind her back, posting facebook status (i love blah.... so happy right now etc.). She receives abusive texts from them and other people, belittling her confidence. Eventually she will snap and decide to take her own life. The story starts with her already dead, and uses a series of flashbacks to tell her story. The end of the video will be of her family surrounding her 'grave' with the people who have made her do this are standing apart from them looking guilty. The idea of this video is to provoke a reaction from the audience and make them think about how we treat people.

Sections of the Music

Instrumental - Starts with her laying dead, flashes to happy times, then gets increasingly gloomy. We see that they are growing apart (shown by the shots off them together quickly followed by her sitting by herself) it finally boils down to her seeing him with another girl, and she explodes with anger just as the music changes and gets rockier.

Main Music - Could have her leaving objects of significance near the boy the flower on her chest at the start of the video (that he could have given her in the happier flashback?). The abuse over the internet begins, and we see her losing control, this section of music ends with a particularly nasty text. We see frequent references to death (black clothing, cuts to petals being picked off the flower?)

Breakdown in Music - This is the point where she eventually cannot take

any more and decides to kill herself.

Back to Main Music - See her laying out pills as the new couple are perhaps laughing?, she succeeds and we see the 'ghost girl' smile (to show her new freedom?), ends with a shot off her family standing around the grave with her abusers standing apart from them.

Here is the new moodboard I have created to capture the mood of our new idea:

Ideas

The main theme to our video will be the death and the connotations surrounding death. I have created a mood-board of images which I think reflects the mood of the video we have in mind to make.

Ideas our group have had so far:

- Flashes to a candle/cigarette burning down until it finally goes out at the end.

- Filmed all in black and white, apart from fast flash scenes.

- Have people in the woods wearing tuxes (funeral outfits) whilst miming the words.

- Someone running and falling into a hole (grave).

- Maybe film in a graveyard/church.

- Using tarot cards to tell the story.

- We see the main character being violent towards someone who's face we never see, until the end where we find out it is them.

To get more ideas for our video, Char has printed off the lyrics and written some analytical notes about them, and the rest of our group has also added small contributions.

As you can see, we are all agreed about what we interpret from the lyrics, which makes life a lot easier for when we begin to storyboard and plan the video.