Planning - Video Proposal Write Up

At the beginning of the video there will be an instant close up of the mans (main character) face, staring into space and looking into the distance. This will show the feelings and expressions of the main character who is going to be looking very depressed, while this close up is taking place the sun will be shining on his face and shown in the background. Both the close up and the shot of the sun are common motifs in music videos purposely placed in our video. For the first verse, the main character will be walking through a field followed by a busy street.  This shows him walking through open space as if he is lost in in his thoughts and thinking of the past. During the second verse the main character begins to sing the lyrics while walking to illustrate he is also the artist. Next will be a flashback to his past relationship, this will be in black and white so people know that it's a flashback. During this flashback there will be scenes of the couple laughing and playing together and looking into each others eyes, this is to highlight they were happy and in love. There will then be a scene of them fighting to show how the relationship deteriorated and why he is sad. When the lyric 'I'm going back to the start' plays the flashback will rewind to the beginning to correspond with the lyrics. During the third verse the main character touches a girl infront thinking it is the girl from the flashback but when she turns around it is someone else, this is done in many music videos and creates suspense within the story in the music video. In the fourth verse we see the main character on the phone to someone but we don't know who it is, however because of the previous scenes we presume it is the girl. As the last chorus plays we see the male character walk into a cafe and the girl is sitting there waiting for them, we see them talk and laugh together signalling they have made up. At the end of the chorus when the line "I'm going back to the start" plays the main character sings this directly into the camera, I feel this shows intertextuality as  he recognises that the camera is present. During the slow ending the entire video will slowly rewind all the way to the beginning. The overall story line of this video is that the main character has fought with his girlfriend and broken up, we see his progression in the video as he begins to miss her and wants to get back together, it ends with the couple reuniting and becoming happy again as this links to the lyrics of 'going back to the start'

Aisleen Dunne