Storyboard

Annotated Lyrics of our song.

The Pitch

Our Music Video is following an 18 year old girl who witnesses a party rather than being a part of the party. As she visits rooms she sees separated scenarios, creating a multiple-stranded narrative. As the party progresses the scenarios escalate quickly, reflecting the dangerous undertone parties often hold. The protagonist visits the first room to witness a couple arguing. She then wanders into the kitchen to witness beer pong as well as witnessing a pair of males sprinkling an unknown powder into a drink. She leaves the room and she discovers a girl passed out in a bedroom next to an opened bottle of enigmatic pills and a male character in another who lay with a note in his hand, un-moving.

The characters are highly Americanised in order to create a cliche party scene. The cliches are later used to subvert the ideologies held towards parties. For example, the sporty, popular character who will have committed suicide. This challenges the audience's own knowledge and preconceptions of characters as they would assume he would not die.

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The music video follows a similar narrative in that there are separate scenes which are passively observed by the main character. For example, one of the first narratives observed includes a male character dancing suggestively with a female and then his boyfriend separates them. Then, later on in the music video the same couple are on the stairs having an argument. As well as this, another "jock" character is in the bathroom with a girl drinking and then is seen walking out with the girl who is in an intoxicated state, casting a dark undertone to the song in order to reflect the bubbly synth sound juxtaposed against the dark, drug-related lyrics.

Music Video Characters & Initial Ideas (Updated)

We initially began to mind-map our ideas before we chose specific roles. This allowed us to splurge our ideas onto a page where we could then narrow the roles down and allocate characters to actors.

Our music video was formed from the different character types so creating different characters was the most important aspect of planning.

We then noted down the scenes and which scene required which character. For example, scene 3 is the scene in which the main character is in the hall. The scene would include the main character and so, to create our party atmosphere we need some characters in the hall.We then tallied how many characters we'd need: 6 boys and 6 girls.

We then wrote down each character type we wanted and began to give roles to actors. Initially we could not find actors however as time went on we were able to get the important characters.

Preppy Inspiration- A style which
combines the high formality, typically
seen in Cambridge, with a fashion-conscious.
It was originally a style associated with private school
children who are wealthy.  Its roots began to grow in 1912
from the Ivy League; establishing itself in the 1950s. By 1980
it had become its own, categorised style, being marketed by
huge fashion labels such as Lacoste. In the 21st century the
style has evolved into a simple mix of formality with an avant-grade feature;
something that is different. This usually is in the form of bracers or a bow tie.

This character is based on
the "preppy" fashion style
as we want to have a wide
scope of personalities. The
mix of formal shirt and bracers
with a bow-tie is a whimsical
style, showing another personality.

  This character is inspired by our Thriller
Opening I did last year and is therefore
our inter-textual link to our Thriller Opening.
The red dress connotes danger. seductiveness
and passiob.

Our jock inspiration- we took our character idea from Ryan Shay from the sitcom
Suburgatory. The character adorns a classic varsity jacket which we
 decided to swap out for a  burgundy bomber jacket. We also changed
 the blue colour to a simple black  jeans and white top.

   This character is based
heavily on the American
"jock" aesthetic to match
our American-like House
Party setting

Mean Girls Costume Inspiration

                    This character is based off
the film "Mean Girls" as we
want to have a wide range
of character and personality
types.

This character takes inspiration
from a "gangster" sub-culture.

 Similar to our "gangster"
character, this character is
inspired by the sub-culture of
"chavs". 

Chav and Gangster inspiration- we decided to split this into two separate characters. This fashion style entered the scene rather late in the 1970s,  most notably brought in by Adidas. The fashion rose to popularity by Will Smith during his appearance on  "The Fresh Prince of Bell Air". In the 21st century it is now associated with snapbacks and low-waisted jeans. However, we wanted to try use a 90s style of gangster/ hip-hop so we wanted to use chains and hats.

This is our main character. An enigmatic, mysterious and invisible main character, observing the party as if she is a fly on the wall. Her casual costume presents her as a care-free character who does not want to be at the party.