Initial planning ideas

• Using Georgina and her boyfriend Matt as the main two protagonists as they will be the boy and girl in a past relationship
• Georgina is the main protagonist who singing at the same time as the narrative following along side
• The story will be in chronological order set in "stages", easy for the audience to follow
• I will also use only several slow motion shots of my friend Jessica performing her gymnastics, so that there is some interesting slow movement for the audience to watch, to seperate scenes and represent the flowing of emotion through her gymnastics ribbon

Brief storyline:

My music video will be half narrative, half performance based. The performance part will be my female actress Georgina walking through the woods, the camera following her, and she mimes to the song after having "just been through a break up", finding random props laying on the floor in her path as she goes along. However, these props are actually figures of her imagination, even though the viewers will still be able to see the props. Each time she curiously picks up a prop, it will merge into a flashback of her last relationship. This will happen each time with the props where they link to a "stage" of her relationship since I want to portray the "5 stages of a relationship" through these flashbacks. This will of course be the narrative part of the music video where Matt, my other actor comes into it. Then, each time it will go back to the performance and Georgina will realise that the "prop" in her hand has dissappeared and isn't actually really there, so she will continue her journey in the woods.

The "5 stages of a relationship"

• excitement/nervousness
• comfortability/falling inlove
• distrust
• heart-break/breaking-up
• acceptance

Costume & makeup:

• Matt: he needs to have a typical bad boy, "masculine" image. So perhaps jeans, a t shirt and trainers. Just a casual look really.
• Georgina in performance: she needs to have an innocent, vulnerable look that isn't overtly sexual. In this case she will wear flowy, floral dresses and casual outfits really. She will wear minimal makeup. She will look like a normal teen because I want teenagers (my target audience) to feel they can relate to her.
• Georgina in narrative: Georgina will have many different looks in the narrative side of my music video, because of course the "stages" shown are going to be flashbacks of different times so every outfit needs to be different, and in order to create a strong contrast and difference between each stage, Georgina's costume needs to be distinctive in each one. So, for example, for the "excitement/nervousness stage" Georgina will be getting ready to go on a date with Matt for the first time, so she will wear a glamorous dress and slightly more make-up. Contrarily to this, when she is in the "comfortable/inlove stage" with Matt, she will wear her hair up, no make-up and tracksuit bottoms to represent that she is comfortable.
• Jessica: Because Jessica will be performing her gymnastics in my music video, I will have her simply wear her gymnastics leotard. This is so that she looks professional and her act is believable to the audience.