Monday 28 September 2009

me and anusha have a while scince we have been thinking about what the narrative would be for our music video, after brainstorming some initial ideas and casting the roles we now have a solid storyline that we can translate to a story board.

We fist want to start with an establishing shot of a train pulling out of the station. The camera pans along a row of empty seats till it reaches a profile view of a young girl around 17 years old. we have not given the girl a name, so we just call her a "girl" we want a dramtic sa look of her, so we give her a messy make up,with dark eye liner smugged down to her cheaks and black eyeshadow too so her eyes stand out,as we are focusing on her eyes as we want a close up to her eyes and then a flash back to the giel wen she was young. so we have to look for a young actor with blue eyes like mimi. for her hair we thought messy would be good as this would show that the girl is lost and confused. we wanted the girl to also look innocent so for her costume we thought a kind of old fashioned dress and also a jacket as we want her to bee seen as a runaway child. we want both the young mimi and teenage mimi to wear the same dress but for the young mimi we want her to have her hair curly, so for the fist verse we would want the young mimi to be on screen, we want young mimi to be lieing down on her parents bed when she wakes up tired and confused and just puts on her mothers make up, while searching around she find her a bottle of pills which she take

"Slow down you crazy child" suggests. There is then a 360 degree revolve around her is followed by her mother, a tired looking woman in a cashmere twin-set and pearls, appearing at the the door. When she sees her daughter she laughs endearingly at her make-up slathered face and strokes her hair in a motherly fashion as the girl sits awkwardly looking down and feeling guilty. Her mother then noticing the open bottle of pills becomes alert and empties the bottle, counting each pill. Once realisation has hit her that they are not all there, her behavour becomes erratic as she tears the room apartsearching for the stray pills. Admist all the chaos, the girl backs out of the room slowly. the next shot we jump to is the young girl, weighed down with bags, quietly leaving the house at the crack of dawn.

We then cut back to the train, focusing the camera at a young man dressed in black watching protectively over the teenage girl which brings us to the performance element of the video as he sings the line "When will you realise...Vienna waits for you". In our music video, we have interpreted Vienna to be a metaphor for a sanctuary to escape to when life becomes too claustraphobic. this also introduces the unrequited love sub-plot between the young man in black and the 17 year-old girl in white however, initially, she is so wrapped up in her troubles that she is oblivious to his prescence. Throughout the video, he will always be on a higher level with the camera looking down on her. This is not to diminish her but to connote a sense of caring that the boy feels towards her. It is not until the end of the video that they are both on common ground.

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