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My music video will be entirely narrative based, which highlights the bands popularity because they do not have to appear in the video for fans to know that it is their song. The song was written because the lead singer was bullied when he was in school and he wanted to make something to tell everyone that they will get through it etc. The message of the song is ‘just keep breathing’ and so I wanted to keep this theme for the music video.

The concept is that the girl is bullied at school or has a hard life at home, and she goes somewhere to escape and ‘just keep breathing’. The video will start with a small backstory about the girl, with various images of her at home or school looking upset and introspective – daydreaming about running away to her place. Then she will leave the house, and there will be a montage of the girl walking, running of sitting in different places, as though she is on a quest of sorts to find a place where she can relax and be herself and be happy. When she finally finds that place, it will be the first time we see the girl smile.

I want the locations to all be very different so that it feels like the girl has travelled a long way to get to where she can breathe. For instance, one location could be a busy high street and another could be Countryside River. If possible, I also want to go to an abandoned warehouse or building of some sort, and then contrast that with a very grand, estate home. The girl’s home should be very average; I don’t want to have the stereotypically ‘poor and depressed’ storyline, because it seems very cliché. I need a house which has a large garden so I can get a mid-shot of the house and have enough room to see the girl walking away from her house.

I wanted the video to be very arty and use lots of fancy camera techniques, but I’m aware that it may be hard to do things such as panning whilst keeping the camera flat, so I will either have to think of a way that I can do this without spending lots of money on hiring a steady cam, or settle with the video being handheld.

The girls costume will be basic but girly, she will probably be wearing a dress, although I want to make sure that the shoes are pretty and still practical because when she gets to the place where she can finally breathe, the whole concept is that she finally feels at home and so she takes her shoes off. So there will be a lot of close up of her shoes. They need to be practical because there will be a close up of her taking her shoes off and I don’t want it to take a long time to film and also I want it to look easy.