Phoebe's A2 media blog: September 2017

Plan

Here's a cleaner, more detailed, typed version of one of the sheets from my 'Planning' post:

Receiving the letter

I hear the sound - close up of walking feet glitching to flashback
Echoes beneath
Angels and skylines meet - spinning shot of the canopy of trees, glitching to flashback
And I'm straining to reach - walking with lantern, with glitch
The light on the surface
Light on the other side

I feel the pages turning - Burning the letter and lip-syncing
I see the candle burning down
Before my eyes
Before my wild eyes - look at camera

I feel you holding me - meeting and struggling, glitching back to before *
Tighter I cannot see
When will we finally

Breathe x 7 -flashbacks and lead through forest - lots of flashback narrative here

I feel the pages turning - jerk to a stop
I see the candle burning down -time lapse of the fallen lantern burning down
Before my eyes -focus on her looking down
Before my wild eyes - eyes up to camera

I feel you holding me - hands on shoulders and glitch to past hug
Tighter I cannot see - he pushes her to her knees
When will we finally - puts dagger to her throat, she closes her eyes and takes a breath

Breathe x 7 - flashbacks - end o black and white of present *

Instrumental - fighting

Breathe x 7 - still fighting and at the last 'breathe' she is over him and inhales and lifts up the dagger then it cuts

Lyrics to Breathe

I hear the sound
Echoes beneath
Angels and skylines meet
And I'm straining to reach
The light on the surface
Light on the other side

I feel the pages turning
I see the candle burning down
Before my eyes
Before my wild eyes

I feel you holding me
Tighter I cannot see
When will we finally

Breathe x 7

I feel the pages turning
I see the candle burning down
Before my eyes
Before my wild eyes

I feel you holding me
Tighter I cannot see
When will we finally

Breathe x 7

Instrumental

Breathe x 7

Planning

Here's some of our planning for the ideas for our 'Breathe' video

Breathe Moodboard

Original Photos for Moodboard

Breathe - Fleurie

The song we have decided to do is 'Breathe' by Fleurie. The idea we have for this is a narrative video.It starts before the song with a woman, in clothing of ambiguous time period, recieving a letter. The song then starts and we see her walking through a forest with a lantern, with glitches to flashbacks of when she has done this before. During the first chorus we see her burning the letter on candle and lipsyncing. We then see her meet a man in the woods, who we see through flashbacks she was romantic with, who then tries to kill her with a dagger. She fights him and overpowers him and gins the dagger and the video ends ambiguously, the audience unsure whether she kills him or not.

The atmosphere of the video is inspired by 'Safe and Sound' by Taylor Swift, which although is not exactly the same genre ('Breathe is Alternative Indie folk and 'Safe and Sound' is Folk alternative country) is a very similar genre and shares many of the same conventions.

Youth - Daughter

Another song we considered was Youth. The narrative we considered was a non-linear one, where we see a group of carefree friends , interspersed with two of them in a relationship and also interspersed with the girl in the relationship breaking down. The audience then find out when the song says 'one will die before he gets there' that the boyfriend has died. We then see the friends comforting the girlfriend, still interspersed with the friends when they were carefree. We ultimately decided that this idea was not original enough and that there was still not enough room for exploration in this song or idea.

Runaway - Ed Sheeran

We looked at Runaway as an song we could use for our music video. Our idea was to follow the existing narrative of the song and have the main character meet up with someone else in the woods, while avoiding their father. We were going to have lots of dim lighting and shadows, and ultimately only show the shadow or individual body parts of the father. We ultimately decided this was a weak idea, as we were constrained by the strong narrative of the song and felt that a song with less of a clear narrative would be better.