Production Story Outline

Since choosing to do a music video for my coursework, I have been brainstorming different ideas and seeing what I could do to make the video and music link together perfectly. After a lot of thought, I have decided on doing the following:

Intro Scene:

·         Girl lying on bed playing with phone.

·         Drops phone off the side of the bed and it bounces slightly under the bed.

·         Shot from one side of bed looking under as she leans down to look under the bed.

·         She picks up phone but sees a dusty book further back.

·         Picks up the box and looks at it, rubs off some of the dust to reveal the title.

·         Moves it over to her desk and sits down to start looking through the photos.

·         As she opens the box the song begins to play.

Music Begins To Play

·         Starts flicking through pictures.

·         Stops on a specific picture.

·         Flashback 1 begins just before chorus starts.

·         Chorus starts at 1:09 hopefully start at roughly 0:40

Flashback 1 – preferably sunny and dry, may have to film very close to finish.

·         First meeting.

·         Park Bench, Train Station, Party, Classroom?

·         Classroom – First day at school, sat next to each other, start talking, girl smiling as boy speaks to her.

·         Park Bench – Boy walks up to girl, introduces himself, start talking, and eye contact, smiling/laughing.

·         Train Station – Boy on train, girl is rushing to train, by holds door for the girl door closes just behind?

·         Train Station – Boy walking through a carriage to find a seat, girl moves her bag so he can sit next to her/opposite her, start talking, eye contact, smiling/laughing.

·         Party – Boy and girl both with different sets of friends, they both look at each other, begin to talk to each other away from everyone else, start talking, eye contact, smiling/laughing.

·         Party, Train Station will be more difficult than the other two.

Flashback 2 – Certain time frame for filming (Christmas Holidays)

·         Oxford Covered Market/Cornmarket Street at Christmas

·         Covered Market – Lights, Christmas trees, festive atmosphere, and festive food.

·         Cornmarket Street – Lights, couple running around, laughing, hold hands.

·         Women dressed in a puffed up coat/fur hood? With a hat and gloves. Man dressed in darker colours just a basic autumn/winter coat, jeans, boots/dark shoes. Woman has more vibrant colours (red).

·         A shot of them walking holding hands from behind, then cuts to just the girl in the same pace, darker coloured atmosphere (Navy Blue or Grey).

·         Walking around, barely anyone else there, looking at similar things as the couple were earlier.

·         Ends with her looking at the same object the photo was taken.

Flashback 3 – Only film on rainy evening

·         Break up scene.

·         Inside a car, argument, rain outside, girl gets out of the car, cuts between boy and girl both showing emotion, anger at first turns to sadness.

·         Location – Car park (Pear Tree services, somewhere in Oxford, Woodstock?)

·         Ideally in the rain but need to find way of keeping camera dry. (Umbrella?)