Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Initial plan for video

Filmed from both boy and girl’s perspective- boy’s recollections shown later in fast cutting rhythm

Scene 1
·      Begins in her room, with diegetic sound of laptop playing one line of chorus of the song.
·      Doll leaning against computer.
·      Girl shuts the laptop and non-diegetic soundtrack kicks in of main track,
·      As girl gets ready to go out- grabs purse or coat etc,
·      Walks out of there room
·      Walking down the road, fast match cuts

Scene 2
·      Lyrics kick in
·      Girl sitting on park bench, reading a [dolls] book inside a magazine
·      Sees a boy walking in her direction wearing the same 6
·      Colour tee-shirt as the doll
·      She looks at it then looks at him (hides doll)
·      They catch each other’s eyes and smile… he trips over; she sees if he is ok
·      They talk, exchange numbers etc
·      He calls her whilst she is holding the doll to arrange meeting up

When music changes Boy sees short shots of them out on dates:
·      Sharing a meal,
·      Sitting on swings,
·      Having a picnic,
·      Hugging
·      Giving him a tee-shirt
·      Saying I love you for the first
·      Watching TV

Scene 3:
·      Tells her he’s going to the toilet
·      Walks up the stairs
·      See’s her room – goes in to have a look
·      See’s her room
·      Camera shots of – doll books, doll on the bed,
·      Shows a close up of boys face (shocked)
·      Tracking shot of photographs of her and the doll

FLASHBACKS:
·      Her putting the doll into the bag
·      Close up of doll in the bag
·      Close up of doll
·      Spiking up his hair
·      Giving him the t-shirt
·      Feeding the ducks at the parks
·      He remembers – shot of him looking worried

Scene 4:
·      Cupboard shaking
·      Boy opens the cupboard
·       Looks in we see reaction in his face
·      See 4 boys standing in the cupboard wearing red t-shirts like the doll
·      Over the shoulder shot of a hand on the boys shoulder
·      Medium shot of girls hand closing cupboard door

Scene 5:

·      See the girl walking down the street as in before with doll in bag
·      Returns to the park and starts to read a book in the same place as before
·      Sees a young boy coming towards her
·      Final shot close up of girls face smiling