Narrative

We need to be able to get across our story behind the song quite quickly and simply, but also effectively. So I was thinking that we might be making things pretty difficult for ourselves by showing them as young boys, which might also be too complicated for the audience, when we can have narrative from a couple of months ago. Then we would show just how close the two boys were, implying that they’ve been best friends for ages. Also we can get this across to the audience, as well as the story with the girl. So it would all be shown in one narrative part that we could cut to a couple of times. I think this is the best way to avoid complication, as the narrative is quite a small part of the music video, which we’ve decided will be dominated by performance. When shooting this, we can also get the photo done, and when we see him later on (or before?) looking at the photo, the audience will recognise it, so it all kind of flows and connects. I don’t know though, we can still try and sort out the thing with my little brother, but my mum said we might have problems with asking one of his friends because some parents are funny about things like this, and we’d have to organise it through my little brother who isn’t exactly the most reliable person.

I thought we could have shots from a couple of months ago of the two guys and the girl out and they are joking around. This is when the main artist was going out with the girl, and we can show this by him having his arm around her or something. The featuring artist is with them too – they were all close friends, but he is kind of following them behind the guy and girl, like the three of them are on a day out. They’re all laughing, the main guy is always turning around to the other guy, showing they are close friends, maybe the main guy like grabs the other guy round the neck laughing – ‘brotherly love,’ to show they were best friends.

Then I thought we could place the other guy like behind, to the right of the main guy and the girl and you see him joking with them, then the camera tracks to the left (goes past the main guy – the other guy is concealed behind the main guys head) and as the camera wipes past Dan’s head, Bernard is revealed again, now in the back centre of the two, you can see his face has changed and he now looks kind of evil, like staring at the two in front of him, showing jealousy, like he’s planned to steal his best friend’s girl for ages. Then the girl could turn around, the camera cuts to behind the couple, an OTS shot of Bernard and we see her look at him, suggesting that there is something going on and she likes him too.

To show that it’s a flashback and a memory we could make the shot really bright, or find the right sepia tone, or play about with focus.

I was inspired by the music video of Roll Deep - When I'm Ere where there is a clever use of camera work and although the guys look similar, they change with wipes past people, buildings etc.

Examples are at - 1:10, 0:55, 0:26, 0:40

For the shot of them three together, I thought the shot in Kano – Ps and Qs was quite similar to what I was thinking. This shot is at 1:58-2:02.
There is a guy behind Kano to the right, then he moves to the left.


Also, if we have lots of problems with our last shot like with lighting and things, then I thought we could do something like Dan goes to the door to leave the room and then Bernard suddenly appears and kind of laughs at him. We could then cut to a long shot where we see Dan backs off and steps backwards. This would represent Bernard like overpowering Dan, as well as invading his space.

- Tanya -