Music video idea #1

Song choice: "Positive-Post-Negative" by "Cohesion"

Background of song: The song has both upbeat sections and slower, minimal sections, with a very upbeat, powerful last third to the song. Lyrically, the song is to do with dealing with the loss of life and moving past it.

Concept: The video will feature both a live performance from the band members of 'Cohesion' and a narrative that relates to the song's meaning. The Concept of the narrative is in keeping with the lyrical meaning of the song, which is to do with dealing with the loss of life and moving past it.

Cast: Members of 'Cohesion' (Matthew Watchman, Jonathan Hall, Jordan Taggart and David Wright (me)), [Female character], [Female character's friends] (3-4 'friends' possibly), Adam Lawson (driver)

Storyboard (Rough): [Female Character] is hanging out with her friends ([Female character's friends]) in one of her friend's houses, laughing and having fun. [Female Character] then receives a text message from a member of Cohesion, asking for [Female Character] to come to the bands practice room as they miss her and want to see each other again. This maybe due to a fallen out between the band and [Female Character] or another reason, no reason is to be specified in said text message. [Female Character] leaves her friends to go see the band happily, showing she is looking forward to meeting up with them. She is walking casually, smiling. On the way to the practice however, [Female Character] is hit by a car (I plan to do this scene at the "heaviest"/loudest part of the song, about two thirds through). [Female Character] then gets up and starts running as fast as she can towards the band's practice building (just down the road), this will show the audience that the first and only thought on her mind is to see the band members, showing how much seeing them again means to her. This is where a running montage will be shown during the upbeat, last third of the song. This is followed by [Female Character] getting to Cohesion's practice room and bursting through the door and looking at the band. The camera will then cut to a shot of the band member's perspectives, with them looking at the open door but without [Female Character] there. This will tell the audience that she never made it to the practice room because she never actually got there, she was killed in the car accident, and her running to the practice room is what she wished she could have done. This is a visual metaphor for the lyrical meaning of the song, dealing with loss of life and moving on from it. I am hoping to use the reveal of [Female Character]'s death at the very end of the video to it's utmost, and that it will maximise the sense of loss.

Locations: The live performance scenes will be set in the bands real practice studio, which is a 'nice and cosy' room, which gives the impression of a nice place to be. This will hopefully give a personal feel/connection between the audience and the band, and maximising the sense of loss further. The car crash scene will be set near the practice room's building, in a graffiti-stained, run-down part of a town. This will give a better feel for the place of [Female Character]'s death, as the location isn't a nice place to be compared with the band's nice, cosy practice room. And the [Female Character] with [Female character's friends] scene will be filmed in a pleasant, warm, homey environment, most likely a cast member's living room in their house. This will give a greater effect to the colder setting of the 'car crash' location.