Treatment
Artist
Kill Joys

Song
Don’t you know?

Genre
Indie

Target Audience
14-20 year olds

Outline of Narrative
As the initial part of the song is solely instrumental we will construct the opening scene of the video to align with this, we will begin by establishing the main male character where we will employ a wide range of varying close up shots to present him to the audience of which we will not completely reveal his identity to the viewer. The boy will receive a phone call from his girlfriend where we will use a close up shot of the phone and will see “Claire” phoning of which his response will be to cut of the call and not answer. From this the audience are getting a hint that the boy is in a troubled relationship and so are able to detect that as the video continues they will learn the reasons behind the reason for their break up. As the lyrics begin the audience are shown a flashback of the boy sat in his bedroom writing a letter to the girl that he is breaking up which hopefully the audience will realise. An over the shoulder shot will be used to show him writing the letter where we will then have a close up of what he is writing which will be the lyrics to the song “I’m looking for something new” as the idea is that what the lyrics say is what the boy wants to say to his girlfriend. Then as the lyrics “I’m taking it day by day” and “just let you see” arise the boy puts down his pen, leans back and sinks into his chair to show that he is thinking and sings the two lines. The flashback continues as when the boy is about to sing the line “ your in my way” the audience are shown an incident that occurred between the couple where the girl blocks a door by standing in front of it in order to prevent the boy from getting past when he is trying to get away from her.
The flashback ends and we the see the boy continuing to walk down the pathway that we saw him walking down before the flashback as he mimes the words “got to move to somewhere else, just got to get away from you, I’ve got to move to some place new, just to get away from you” to the camera. At this point we will use a medium long shot in order to portray the male characters persona as being a normal stereotypical teenage boy which through the mise en scene the audience will be able to recognise through his clothing. As the song breaks into “woahhhhhhhhh” another flashback occurs which we will use Adobe premiere to create a dissolving effect, the flashback will consist of the girl with the leading role to accidentally fall over and her boyfriend the starring boy to help her up and laugh it off which will be done for the first time that the chorus is played via a medium long shot to ensure that the audience can fully witness the events that are occurring. From this we want to convey the breakdown of the relationship to the audience as in later scenes we see a dramatic contrast in terms of how their relationship functions i.e. it is starting off innocently “I’ve seen you falling in disgrace” we have taken a literal meaning in regards to the first time this line of the chorus is played however as the song progresses we will interpret it metaphorically as we want to highlight the break down in their relationship.
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We then go back to the flashback where we see the boy continuing to write the letter to the girl, again we will use an over the shoulder shot as from this the audience will feel that they are reading something private that they shouldn’t be looking at. We will then adopt a close up shot to reveal what he is writing where we’ll see him writing “Just to get away from you” which will further enforce to the audience that they boy is wanting to get away from his girlfriend and end the relationship with her.
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As the chorus plays for the third time we are at the stage where the relationship has deteriorated as this time “I’ve seen you looking at my face, I’ve seen you falling in disgrace” takes a more metaphorical meaning as when the girl falls down from being intoxicated it also symbolises the fall down of their relationship; again we will use a medium long shot to ensure that the audience are fully aware of the events that are proceeding. In this flashback we see the boy looking “disgraced” as it says in the song. As the chorus is repeated again the flashback ends and we see the boy still walking down the path we will then show a close up of the letter that we have shown him writing in flashbacks which will hopefully enable the audience to establish that he is on his way to giving his girlfriend the letter we will use a long shot to show him walking down the path which he will gradually walk closer to representing that he is now in control of what is going to happen. For when the chorus is repeatedly immediately again we will place in a jump cut to represent both the literal and metaphoric journey that has been on in terms of the journey of delivering the letter and the events that have lead to delivering the letter. At this point we will employ an over the shoulder shot of the boy posting the letter through the girls door so that the audience will feel that they are involved in what is occurring as they will feel as though they are intruding. Having seen the boy placing the letter through her letter box we will then show it falling through the door on the other side using a medium close up shot. We will use another over the shoulder shot to show the girl picking up the letter, opening it and beginning to read it, the shot will then turn into a close up of her face looking confused and distressed. We will then use a panning shot of her sliding down the door which will then go back into a close up of her face as she places her head in hands. The final shot will be a panning shot of the boy casually walking off her street smiling to himself.

Recourses
Camera, tripod, white board, tracks, song, lights, jib, props such as letter/envolope, mobile phone.

Crew
Camera Pearson (Kay, Olly and Katey) main male character, main female character and 5-6 extras.

Time required
10 hours filming plus
5 plus editing hours
Budget
Camera- £1500
Tripod- £
Tracks-
Cast- £100+ per person