Storyline For Music Video

We have decided to use a narrative in our music video, the original song is a very typical contemporary love song sang by a male artist. However in our video we have decided to use a female character as the singer. The storyline in our video is going to be a typical love story between a girl and boy, we will have scenes of the boy and girl together all happy and cheery and then we will also have scenes of them both fighting and argueing. by doing this we aim to make the audience think what is going on, are they together? or aren't they?. Meanwhile the lyrics of the song will also only confuse the audience even more as the lyrics 'if i lay here, would you lay with me' insinuates her wanting him too be with her but it could also be her asking him if he'll be with her. however towards the end of our music video we will be reveiling the fact that the couple aren't together any more, and the real reason for this will also be reveiled, the reason for them being apart is because 'she' the female actress has been dead throughout the whole music video and while she is singing to him, 'her love', she is also having flashbacks on their relationship. This has been used in many music videos, one of the main music videos which inspired us to use this plot as our narrative was the song 'Mad' by Neyo. Another idea we have for our music video is to have some of the flashbacks, the happy, cheery ones in colour and having the rest in black and white, we plan to do this when editing our video.

By Masuma Begum