Our Final Music Video.

The video starts with a close up of a phone, the phone vibrates a receives a text in perfect timing with the beat of the music. The camera then moves to an extreme close up of the text being opened and the text reading, 'Sorry I can't do this any more' from 'Alex'. We then pan upwards to be introduced to our main character who has just red the text his face shows different emotions of upset and anger, so we assume he has just been dumped. This is where we know that the whole music video will be revolved around our main character. We then have a shot reverse shot of our main character resulting to alcohol, he would take swigs of vodka and then a medium shot of the alcohol slowing decreasing, this emphasizes how much the character is drinking in such a short period of time. We continue these shots for another 6 shots until the alcohol is all gone. We chose to have our main character drinking alcohol so early because it will show his anger and un-happiness caused by the text just received, also alcohol is a convention that is normally associated with drum&bass music videos. We then have a point of view of him looking down on the vodka bottle that he has just dropped, this also shows how much he has drank as he has finished a whole bottle.
We then have wide medium shots of our main character messing up his room by tipping part of his bed, throwing items and throwing his clothes. When editing these shots we had to decrease the speed to make them fit in with the slow pace of the song at the beginning. We then have a close up of our main character ripping the photo up, this photo has a big importance in the video as we see it later on in the video.
We then use medium shot of him leaving a house, this helps makes the video flow and make sense so we know how he gets to one place to another. Also using different transitions help show that time is passing throughout the video quickly.
As our main character is walking along the street he is still reading the same text from earlier in confusion, but is shocked to see his ex with another person, their is obviously tension in the atmosphere. So as our main character passes staring at the couple, they both look over their shoulders making eye contact, we have decreased the speed of this clip as well to show the importance of this part of the video.
As the slow music begins to speed up, we have added quick cut shots of the main character and his actions, this fits in with the music and keeps the audience engaged. Out of fit of anger, the main character goes onto kicking and throwing road signs, this shows the audience how angry he really is, we then switch to a point of view shot of an on coming car, this is done by hand held so it still fits in with the fast paced music with the unsteady and jolt of the camera, this creates excitement for the audience as they do not know what's about to happen, in a last second our main character jumps out of the way to watch the car go past. This shows to the audience how desperate and distraught our character is with his attempt of suicide.
By keeping this whole shot hand-held it keeps the audience intrigued as its as if they are watching it through the characters eyes.
The following sequence start with the lyrics 'Take me out of her' as we have a pan downwards to the protagonist falling onto the floor in weakness, the high camera angle shows the vulnerability and weakness. The protagonist makes a phone call, which is then followed by a mystery character walking around the corner, we use a long shot so the audience can see the full mysterious character, from a stereotypical dress and walk we can see that this character is trouble. We use a shot reverse shot of the protagonist and our new mysterious character talking, the camera is close to show the frustration and anger on their faces this highlights the tension and anger in their conversation. An extreme close up of drugs being swapped from hand to hand is seen, so we now know this character was a drug dealer. After the shot of the swap, we switch to a point of view shot of a white blur that dissolves into a clear point of view shot of drugs lined up, the blur and then sudden clear view shows the effect that drugs and alcohol has taken on the main character.
A new location is introduced by an establishing shot, the following shots are of the protagonist throwing bottles at a wall, we used a special effect to keep the audience interested and highlight the smashing of the bottles by reversing the shot and slowing the duration down, so our character throws the bottle - it smashes - the then bottle reforms like rewinding and he throws it again. We then highlight one and slow the speed down when a bottle smashes against a certain part of the wall with graffiti reading 'Jay is Gay', the audience for the time being will take no notice of this un till later when it relates back. To keep the flow going we have a shot of the protagonist running up a hill from a long distance shot, to then a point of view shot of him looking down whilst standing on top of the tunnel, the camera is still shaking and unsteady this emphasizes the use of drugs and alcohol. The use of this hand held shot makes the audience again see the pressure and distraught from our protagonist considering suicide again. We have an extreme shot of a watch, this is to illustrate time going quickly and that the events have taken place over a whole day. From now on all of our shots are in darkness, this helps creates more confusion from the main character especially the point of view shots with lights that blur and spin, this again highlights the use of drugs and alcohol.
The following section of the video is the fire, we choose to use this bit towards the end because using the fire in pitch black makes it stand out, it also makes the video have the dark and gloomy feel. He burns presents and items that belong to his ex, this emphasizes the lyrics that are playing at this moment of time 'Feed the Fire', we switch to a point of view shot, by using the camera hand held to where he walks towards the fire then falls in front of the burning fire, again this is another near death experience for our main character.
From the previous shot the blurriness zooms out into the clear view of the drugs to which our protagonist wipes away the drugs and throws away alcohol, this is a significant turning point for our character to which we believe he gets better. He pours alcohol into the sink which shows the cleaning phase we us a transition from the running water down the sink to running water coming out of bath taps. This helps keep the video running smoothly. As the audience now knows we are in the bathroom, we have an over shoulder shot of the main character looking into the mirror with a distraught and deppressed look on his face. We see a close up of a phone were out main character forwards the text previously recieved from his ex, saying 'Sorry i can't do this no more', this add suspicion and confusion to the audience as they expected him to be getting better. We have a pan upwards to show the protagonist in the bath, but with blood on his wrists as the pan upwards continues we see him laying their in the bath surrounded by his blood and his other wrist slit. As the audience would be startled to see such a blunt ending, the photo that was ripped earlier by the main character is slowly dropped from his hand, and in slow motion falls to reveal that the ex 'Alex' was in fact the boy from which we saw earlier in the street when our main character had passed them. This reveals that our love couple are a homosexual couple, this challenges the conventions of the typical couple as we see homosexuality to be embraced. We see a flash back of the boy Alex from earlier we also increased the contrast of that shot to make it brighter this clearly shows that its a flashback, we then switch back to the photo laying on the floor to remind the audience that it was the boy from earlier. We switch to a medium shot of our main character whilst zooming out, it ravels that he is still in bath still with slit wrists and has sunk lower in the bath as the blood spreads, and the music slowly dissolves out to a blunt ending.