Final Idea

After many meetings and long discussions with the group, we decided that our original idea would not work as well as we thought it would. We also could not find enough research to back up our ideas and reasons for doing certain things in our video. We felt that it was too difficult to explain our ideas and so we had to come up with a new idea that we could explain clearly. We decided we wanted to re-create it with a story to explain it.

We first changed our song to Swimming Pools by Kendrick Lamar. After deciding that our original video idea wouldn't work, we decided that we needed to have a message behind our video. We decided that the message would be alcoholism as it relates largely to the song we have chosen.

We looked at the lyrics of the song to some up with a story behind our video and so we linked it largely to the lyrics. By doing this we haven’t copied anything from the video as it doesn't relate to the lyrics as much as our video does.

The story of our video is that the main boy in our video has drinking problems to hide away his pain. Some people are worried about him and others are being bad influences. We show the difference in his behavior by having some parts of him in a room on his own and the mise-en-scene and the model shows his feelings. Other parts of the video will show him at the party enjoying himself. We also have a main girl who is his enigma. We never explain why our main boy has this enigma. We leave it to the audience to find out for themselves which leaves the audience feeling curious.

The message of our video will be portrayed through a teenage boy that from the start has a lot of issues within his life. We show this through his extensive use of alcohol and partying, however, the reason behind his drinking is never clear as we wanted to intrigue the audience. We create an enigma in the form of a female model which will be in many of the scenes but in a way that is faded and confusing. This makes it clear that the girl is on the boys mind which raises the issue of her being the reason for his alcohol problems. In our video we will be making him appear secluded as he will alone in the party scenes and his conscience will be talking to him when he is alone in an empty room. At the end of the video he will be alone walking along an empty street as the audience need to be aware of how alone he is feeling. This highlights the different stages of dependency to the audience as he ignores a text from his mum worrying about him to go to a party instead. The reason behind his alcoholism will always be left a mystery despite the video hinting that it has something to do with the female model. The video will shoot back and forth from the male model to the female which will make it quite erratic to show how he is feeling inside.