The promotional music video will begin with a shot of the lead singer sitting at a desk at his house looking at his laptop. The audio being used on the music video has some dead silence for the first few seconds at the start so this shall cover that. As the music kicks in there will be a shot over the shoulder of the lead singer showing what he is doing on the laptop. We will see him search for a girl on Facebook and then a close up of his facial expression will show he has emotional connections to this girl. Following this there will be another shot of the laptop screen displaying the girl is in a relationship with another man, we will choose a blonde man so that it is clear he is a different person. To conclude this particular verse of the song there will be some on-beat editing. The lead singer will stand up and grab his coat, then when the music tempo goes up on the instrumental he will go into fast motion as he goes out the house, gets in his car and arrives at his next destination.
Following the fast instrumental the song slows down again for another short verse. Here the singer will have come to a different destination to think about his life and we will try and portray his sadness. This will be done in two ways. The first will be a close up of him sitting and lighting up a cigarette to show he his stressed, then the second will be a fast motion shot of him pacing backwards and forwards to show a passing of time as he thinks. As the verse closes the lyrics says ‘we can piece it back together’, so here there will be a shot relating to these lyrics. The lead singer shall get his phone out before trying to arrange a meeting with the girl he is in love with. At this point the chorus kicks in and we will see the first but of performance in a mostly narrative music video. We will see shots of the lead singer passionately singing in street-lit streets at night time. When the chorus finishes the video shall fade back to where the narrative left off, and the lead singer shall get back into his car. When back in the car the lead singer will get his phone out of his pocket to see if the girl has text back, and see she hasn’t. Then with close up shots of clocks a brief passing of time shall be shown before she eventually texts back. The message shall be that her and her new boyfriend are moving to London and are catching a train at a certain time, and that means goodbye between the lead singer and her. Here the chorus kicks back in again which shall be similar as before with mid-shots of the lead singer performing in a street.
At this part of the song there is an instrumental that lasts almost a minute building up to the final line of the song, so there needs to be some good narrative to fill the space. So after the chorus the song will cut back to the lead singer sitting in his car after reading that text looking agitated. Then there will be a close up of him turning on the car engine which shows her is about to go somewhere. During the car journey we will be flicking back and forwards with shots of time passing on the car clock and the lead singer looking stressed. As the music picks up tempo the train shall be shown coming in as the lead singer is rushing to meet it and stop the girl. Then during the instrumental there is a slight dramatic key change so at this point the train will be shown pulling away when the lead singer isn’t there yet. When the instrumental comes to the end there is a final sad line and there will be a close up of the lead singer’s face upset to have missed the train. Here the video will fade out to black and that will be it.
Locations and Props
Locations | Props |
Thomas Oriel’s house | Laptop |
Naseby viewpoint | Mobile phone |
Streets at Clipston | Car |
Market Harborough train station | Cigarette |
In the car | Train |
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