Download - Initial ideas of narrative
Ini$al Ideas For Narra$ve
By Kirs$n Jarvis
Idea 1; My first ini$al idea is to use the bands’ garage for the performance area of the video, as this will make the appearance of the video look more convincing that it’s a professional music video. I’ll use this same loca$on as the set for the narra$ve side of the video also, the narra$ve will be based around the lead singer (perhaps) geHng kidnapped and being taken to the loca$on of the performance where the song will stop and a short interroga$on will occur (no longer than 20 / 30 seconds) and will become more violent as the song restarts and con$nues (with shots of the performance in between the narra$ve) and will end with a twist on the narra$ve side of the video. During the interroga$on area of the narra$ve there will be some extremely brief, disjunc$ve disturbed flashing images which will sync against the music to make it feel like a music video. The narra$ve will start with the kidnapping, and during the interroga$on there will be brief flashbacks that tell the story quickly, un$l the end.
Idea 2; • The performance area of the video remains the same, but the
narra$ve shows a person running away/leaving something(or someone) behind which is shown by the use of bags/suitcases etc, about 30 seconds of screen $me will show him walking to his des$na$on through uses of different shots/camera movements, he wanders into the woods to find a place to rest and sees 2 others siHng together (one roughly resembling a sub-‐urban gang member, and another of a different past/group) there will then be shots of what led them to where they are (like a flashback), and to no$ce whose past the audience are looking into there will be a close up of the face, and then a close up of the eyes. This will happen with all 3 characters, and will then have a twist occur which will show the past that the people fled from coming back to kill them (these characters had fled from a bad life of crime/war etc) and the main character will flee the forest and run into the person he was escaping, and be killed.
Idea 3; • Again, the performance parts of the video will remain the
same but the narra$ve will consist of the main character arguing with a female (argument will be muffled), the video will start with this argument (inc. diege$c sound) and will show the male storming out of a house/building where the song will then start, and upon the song beginning there will be performance shots of the band playing, intersec$ng with the narra$ve. The narra$ve will escalate to the runaway male wandering back alleys at night, and the video will show dangers of the darkness (what can lie within it) and the character being confronted by these dangers (realis$c, every day dangers like being mugged/threatened etc)