Updated Premise - More detailed planning

Today we had another production meeting where we began detailed planning of our final production.  In other words, we constructed a verbal storyboard and in depth, talked through how we would shoot our music video.

 Below is the notes and how we have decided to film our music video  from the discussions we had today:

- Start off with a wide shot of the cork-board filled with photos. There is just dietetic sound and the camera is slightly zooming in/ out.
- The boys hand comes in, not revealing his identity, and unpins a photo from the board. Due to the side on camera angle, the audience do not see what photo it is.
- The boy sits on the bed, looking at the photo. The boy is sitting on the bed in between the window and the camera. The lighting is dark and the windows natural light creates a silhouette of the boy looking at the photo.
-We see shots around the room of the boy sitting on the bed and looking at the photo, throughout this, his identity is revealed.
- At 0;15, when the chord shifts, the boy will stand up, put the photo in his pocket and get up to leave.
- Then at 0:23, as the drums kick in, he slams the door with purpose as he leaves.
- He leaves the house and turns right out of the gate. Walking down the street there are montage shots, that importantly wont break his 180-degree rule (he's always walking right)
- Fade to black

- cuts to a girl in her room, combing her hair etc..
- See's a 'Happy Anniversary' card, that the audience assumes is from the boy. She looks at it before tossing it away.
- At 0:45, she gets up and leaves her house, turning left out of her front door,
- Here, we plan to implement another montage like sequence of the girl walking along the pavement.
- Along her way, we plan to use some special affects to portray her sending a text to the boy.
- She reaches a bus stop and

- We  cut back to the boy walking outside the entrance to a restaurant/ cafe. Then, in a flashback, the audience will see the two holding hands and walking in.
- Another montage of the boy walking where he will receive the text but nevertheless ignore it and carry on walking.
- Eventually, he will come off the urban street and transition into a more natural location. We have several ideas for locations in mind.

-  Cuts to a shot of the girl on bus, looking out of window.
- Girl who is steps off the bus. She see's the boy is ignoring her so she sends another text.
- The girl continues walking until she comes to a  statue/ sculpture (a location for this in mind) and similar to the boys flashback, we cut to a photo of the boy in front of the sculpture.
- She pauses, then continues to walk onto a bridleway.

- Montage shots of the boy walking in the woods, not breaking the 180-degree rule - this ensures he is always viewed by the audience as walking in one direction.
- he receives another text but again ignores it.
- During this montage, we will  experiment with colour correction filters, slow mo and close ups to consolidate the genre of our production.
- As well as shots of the boy, there will be shots of his surroundings and the natural location.

- Then a similar montage of the girl walking along the bridleway
- Again we will feature close ups of the girl as well as generic shots of the location.
- Once again, she maintains a consistent 180' rule so she's always walking in a certain direction.

- After they've both had a montage sequence of them in their individual locations, we are going to implement shot-reverse-shot between them in time with the changes in the lyrics

- Cuts to the boy sitting on a bench along the woodland path he has been walking along
- he pulls the photo out of his photo and stares at it but again the audience don't see what it is of.
- He gets up and puts the photo in his pocket and continues walking.

- Cuts to the girl similarly sitting on a bench along her path.
- A couple holding hands walks passed her and she follows them with her eyes.
- She then gets up and carries on walking

- Boys comes out of the woods and makes his way onto the beach
- Various shots from behind him, giving the sense of travel/ the audience following him.
- We will also use establishing shots of the beach, probably wide angels.
- When he's on the beach, at the climax of the song at 2:38, the boy turns and see's that the girl is also on the beach.
- Used varied shots to emphasis the significance and emotion during of this scene. E.g. wide, shot reverse shot, close ups.
- This is the most important section of the song.
- they stare at each other before hugging each other
- As the chorus/ gospel section repeats, the boy pulls the photo out of his pocket, revealing it for the first time to the audience.
- it is a photo of the girl/ both of them at the beach location - perhaps on a bench/ railing/ shop front/ landmark. Together they turn and look at the location the photo was taken.

- When the gospel section fades out at 3:09, there will be a rather long, fade to black, lasting perhaps until the lyrics come back in or maybe earlier.
- After the fade to black, it fades in and we are back in the boys bedroom. The narrative starts and ends in a very similar way, just like the song and the lyrics.
- He sits on the bed and pulls out a new/ the old photo (not fully confirmed yet).
- he looks at it smiling, shot in a very similar way to how it was shot at the start of the video
- He slowly looks up over the camera and the photo and smiles as if the girl has just walked in.

- Fade to black.

Although this will provide a detailed structure to further plan our project, these narrative points are not final and we still have many crucial decisions to discuss and finalise.

Next Steps: Now we have a general narrative, we have agreed the next important step in planning is to sit down with the track and produce a timeline of when each plot event occurs. This will give us a coherent structure upon which to storyboard our music video. This will also prevent us from shooting our footage and begin editing only to find we haven't got enough footage to last the entire 4:00 song. We will give each narrative section a start and end point coinciding with the track and the changes in the song.