Plot, Narrative and Rough Plan for Music Video

The plot and narrative for our video seems like a bit of a confusing one at first but once it is shown with the storyboard it all becomes clear. We have areas in the music video which we want the on screen visuals to reflect the song’s lyrics in parallel timing to each other.

Our music video starts with a man sitting down on a sofa and switching on a TV.

The next sequence of shots starts after 8 seconds and takes place as we zoom into the TV viewing the onscreen footage through our own TV screens, computer monitors or laptops ect. in this sequence of shots we see a couple arguing, similar to what happens in the video of Chase and Status's Time but without the domestic violence, at the end of this sequence we see the guy from the argument (the same person from the sofa shots at the start) walk out of the front door, with a match on action shot being used, and then walking down the street.

The above section ends after 22 seconds as we see the man walking down the road singing the song while alternating with a flashback which shows more of the argument which we saw at the start of the song.

In the instrumental which runs between 44 seconds and 1 minute all we see is this flashback which, itself, stops after 66 seconds. There is then a split screen sequence shown in real time which follows the instrumental it shows both the man and the woman siting against different walls. This sequence ends after 10 seconds where we see only the man on screen, standing up and heading back towards the house.

We then see an extreme close-up before a sequence of the man lip-syncing which alternates between real time (the present) and the past (the flashback) this carries on until 106 seconds in where past and present cross and the flashback is dropped from the narrative.

We then see the man breaking into his own house by climbing in through the window, walks past the girl who's still on the floor and sits down on the sofa where we then here the lyrics 'it's repetition it's a mission' before zooming into the TV and watching what the man would see.

This is where the artist (who is also the man) is shown acting like he's in a pop music video lip-syncing to the camera through to 154 seconds in where the woman comes into the room where the man is sitting where the man explains himself and they then sit on the sofa together.

After this, 181 seconds in, there is a quick fire flashback sequence which runs through till 203 seconds in where we then go back to watching the TV through till the end of the music video.

Reece Field.