INITIAL IDEAS

Write a synopsis of what happens in your narrative, explain the plot, what is your story, the message you want the audience to give?

First Idea: Based on the narrative from the music video of Bob Dylan's - 'Beyond here lies
                    nothing'.
   
The beginning of the narrative starts with the males face at a medium close up shot, zooming towards him with a blank expression. His face is the abstract centre piece to the contrast between the dream and the reality of his dysfunctional relationship.  With jump cuts we see the girls face happy and smiling with a fast forward to her crying and upset putting keys on the kitchen side and walking toward the door. Hidden in the narrative there is reference to the 'Where the Wild Things Are' a children's book by Maurice Sendak, as from analysing the lyrics I saw several relations and want to present this to the audience.
The story unfolds as to why she is leaving and shows how the male can see she isn't in love him with anymore. It then rewinds to show how she used to be with him and how she is now. During the development we see how he is too possessive with her but he doesn’t realise and everything he seems to do annoys her in some way.
Clearly hurt by the thought of him loosing her he does all he can to try and convince her he loves her but it ends up physical and we see his face as medium close up, zoomed as he is knelt by her body on the floor in darkness with only flashes showing both his face and hers.


Second Idea:

The narrative starts with a girl sat clenched up against a bathroom wall, clearly been crying as we see the makeup down her face, sat in what looks like soggy clothes. As we zoom out we see a dripping tap and then again the girl, medium close up make up smeared across her face. We see an argument unfold with a flash back and see her packing her belongings while the male lays on the floor with a gash on his head, unconscious. As she begins to runaway a hand closes the door from behind her. The man overpowers her she is tied to the kitchen chair where the mans hauls abuse in her face. She manages to get her arms free when the man turns to get the sedatives in which he has been giving her and grabs the closest thing to her and hits him over the head. It resolves with boy the male and the female sat in the dark staring towards nothing both with blood on their hand and face.

Third Idea:

The narrative begins in a kitchen with the female appearing to be sat at a table looking extremely run down while the male makes breakfast behind her. He forces the breakfast on the table in front of her yet we see the Breezeblock which appears to be on her lap. As the narrative develops we see him giving the female drugs yet she refuses to open her mouth to take them and instead grabs her breakfast bowl and throws it at him. This angers the male and we seem him getting tenser.
We then see him sat in a dark room with an angered expression and through his eyes we see how he wanted things to be but how they are in reality and the audience begin to understand that she wanted to leave him.
Through the females eyes we then see why she wanted to leave him and how he had been treating her over the time they were together. We see how his manipulation led to her feeling isolated.
In the end we see the man laid by the woman on the floor holding a photo of her smiling, as he moves the photo from her face we see her with no emotion.

Fourth Idea:

The music video in which I will create will be a combination of both narrative an abstract, taking elements from all three previous ideas. The beginning will consist of the male sat at a kitchen table being the abstract centre piece of the contrast of what is reality and what is in fact a dream. We will see him get frustrated with himself, showing a violent nature, throwing kitchen wear. As the narrative unfolds we see him returning back to the chair and from this the audience will then begin to understand why he is so angry and upset with himself. With a flash back we see him and the girl sat at the table having breakfast, the girl seems anxious and explains that she is going to leave the man for good. The male is angry with this and hurls abuse at the woman. A fight breaks out between the man and woman and he chases her to the bathroom where he places her head in a sink full of water until she struggles to breathe. The male realises what he is doing and quickly relieves the pressure of the woman and leaves. With a jump cut we see the girl sat against a bathroom wall crying with make up down her face and see the male trying to apologise. With a straight cut we see the male sat back at the table.