The First Draft of Our Storyline

For a while we have been thinking about what the narrative would be for our music video, after brainstorming some initial ideas and casting the roles we now have a solid storyline that we can translate to a story board.

We start with an establishing shot of a train pulling out of the station. The camera pans along a row of empty seats till it reaches a profile view of a young girl around 17 years old. She has no name and is meerly referred to as "Girl". Her hair is messy and her eye make up has run leaving two dark streaks down her face to show she has been crying as we see her reflection in the window. To juxtapose with the darkness and shadows she iswearing a pretty white dress underneath a worn out leather jacket and is carrying a large bag. She is a teenage runnaway with connotations of a very different life before and as the camera zooms in on her face she closes her eyes and leans back as she contemplates how she got to this place.

This a device to take us to a flashback as we cut the eyes of her as a child opening. The frames are sepia-toned to indicate this shift in time period. As the camera zooms out we see her lying star-fished on her parent's bed in a bored manner wearing a pale pink dress with her hair in tight ringlets. She sits bolt upright and aimlessley makes her way over to her mother's dressing table. At this point the intro would be over and the song would be into the first verse. The child is a sheltered, bored dreamer who yearns to be taken seriously. She covers her face in her mother's make-up and as she searches through her dresser she opens a drawer to find a bottle of pills. The young girl eyes them suspiciously as she holds them up to the light, then opens the bottle and swallows a few. This marks her attempt to escape from adolescence and the world that appears to be strangling her as the line, "Slow down you crazy child" suggests. There is then a 360 degree revolve around her is followed by her mother, a tired looking woman in a cashmere twin-set and pearls, appearing at the the door. When she sees her daughter she laughs endearingly at her make-up slathered face and strokes her hair in a motherly fashion as the girl sits awkwardly looking down and feeling guilty. Her mother then noticing the open bottle of pills becomes alert and empties the bottle, counting each pill. Once realisation has hit her that they are not all there, her behavour becomes erratic as she tears the room apartsearching for the stray pills. Admist all the chaos, the girl backs out of the room slowly. the next shot we jump to is the young girl, weighed down with bags, quietly leaving the house at the crack of dawn.

We then cut back to the train, focusing the camera at a young man dressed in black watching protectively over the teenage girl which brings us to the performance element of the video as he sings the line "When will you realise...Vienna waits for you". In our music video, we have interpreted Vienna to be a metaphor for a sanctuary to escape to when life becomes too claustraphobic. this also introduces the unrequited love sub-plot between the young man in black and the 17 year-old girl in white however, initially, she is so wrapped up in her troubles that she is oblivious to his prescence. Throughout the video, he will always be on a higher level with the camera looking down on her. This is not to diminish her but to connote a sense of caring that the boy feels towards her. It is not until the end of the video that they are both on common ground.