Unfortunately I had to change the location for the ‘room’
scenes of my music video. This was due to my of consideration when it came to equipment
and whether power sockets where available at the location. This meant that I had
to change my original idea to accommodate the change of location. As the new
location was a bedroom of a typical teenager (my target market) this meant that
the scenes where the boy is ‘trashing’ the room where unable to film. The lack
of these scenes meant that the entire plan for the video had to be re-planed
and this change taken into account.
I then decided that the video would still follow the basic principles
of the existing plan and that to accommodate for this change the narrative side
of the video should become less structured and more open for interpretation. The
narrative would still include the boy and girl braking up and getting back
together but the reasoning and transition would be less clear. This enables the
viewer to perceive the couple in the way they wish and they can then create
their own scenario for what the couple’s situation is. This gives the viewer
the chance to make the video more personal to them as they usually create
scenarios that are similar to those they have been through in their life. This choice
was also inspired by existing videos such as My Chemical Romances music video
for- I don’t love you and Panic at the discos- I write sins not tragedies. which use very unstructured narratives in their videos.
I also believe that the lack of structure in the narrative mimics
the lyrics of the song which are very unspecific about the couple and instead
focus mainly on the feelings of a person in a relationship that is unstable. The
lyrics at the beginning of the song ‘when the walls care in I will pull out,
when the grounds shaking I will hold you down and I swear to god that we will
make it out alive’ demonstrates the kind of ‘destructive’ or ‘unstable’ love that
the song is about. The line shows that no matter how their relationship brakes
down that he still cant help loving her and that he will try to make the relationship
work. The rest of the song follows this theme and the details of the
relationship are never mentioned. Therefore I think that by not including the
details in the music video the video illustrated the lyrics and intentions of
the song. This idea follows Andrew Goodwin’s theory that there is a
relationship between the lyrics and visuals, and that there is a relationship
between the music and visuals.
