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Concept

The themes throughout our music video will portray typical teenage behaviour after a night on the drink. This theme will include hazy flashbacks as the protagonist in the video tries to unscramble his mind and figure out what events occurred the night before. Mise en scene will include shots of empty beer bottles scattered around the house, and maybe the remains of left over takeaway etc. Throughout the video, we plan to illustrate the meaning of the lyrics through the acting and narrative. We will also include shots of a live band playing parts of the song. The hazy shots will be an important part of the video as they will create humour and involve the viewer in thinking it is a night in which they could relate to.

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Performance and Narrative

The narrative will start with a teenager waking up in his room filled with empty beer bottles and going downstairs in the morning after a night of drinking with his friends. As he does this he finds u number of his friends asleep in different places in the house. These random locations in which he is finding his friends asleep, trigger flashbacks from the night before. These flashbacks will include drinking games, dancing, and just being plain stupid with alcohol. These flashbacks will occur throughout the video. We also plan to have a live band playing the song and will cut to the band in different parts of the video; including close ups of the instruments being played and lip syncs.After the first flashback the boy will go into the kitchen to find another one of his friends asleep on his table whilst he starts to make him self some breakfast.

The choruses of the song will include shots of the aftermath disappearing. This will include all the empty bottles in the boy’s bedroom, and in the kitchen etc.

The second verse will show the boy’s mum shouting at him about the mess in the house. At this point the boy gets his bag and gets kicked out of the house. After this, he walks to his friends house whilst the band are playing the solo, and when he gets there, his friends are waiting for him, with another party. The end of the video with the repeated words ‘reappear’ will show the house getting messy again after another night of partying. We want the video to represent a low class teenager’s life of rebellion against parents and constant partying.

Costume and Props

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In the video, the characters will be wearing indie clothing to suit the alternative genre of music. This will include skinny jeans, band T-shirts and vans shoes. As for props we will need instruments for the live band and also lots of empty bottles to scatter around the house to create a realistic aftermath from a party.

Camera and Lighting

For the performance element of our video, we want the band to be playing in a warehouse or an area with lots of graffiti etc. When recording these shots, we will use close up shots on the instruments so that our audience can see guitar playing. We will also have some close up shots of the singer so that we can add lip syncs into the video; we think this will look more professional. Also, when it comes to editing the camera shots, we want the flashbacks to look hazy and distorted to reinforce that the protagonist is struggling to remember what happened. As for lighting, the area in which the band are playing is going to look rather gloomy so we will need to make sure that we get a clear shot. This might mean shining a light on the band while they play.

Editing

When we have all of our shots and it is time to edit, there are a couple of things we are going to do. One of which I mentioned above about flashbacks. We will use a hazy filter over the clip to make the image look distorted to reinforce that he can’t remember the events of the night before. At the end of the video when he goes to his

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friend’s house, we are going to use a slow motion shot because we think it will look professional. We will also need to make sure we cut between the narrative and the performance at suitable times so that the viewer does not get confused. We must ensure we have a band in our video, as this is a common convention of alternative music videos.

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