My Idea

0.01 – ‘ding’, first note, open on a close up of the female lead singer… ‘you got me so wild’
continue with beauty shots of her and the other band members.

The performance takes place in a white room, well lit, but not to the point where it looks sterile and clinical, it should just look clean and plain and the band should be the focus.
The reason for this is as the video progresses, the room should gradually get more and more wrecked, perhaps with the use of paint all over the walls and floors – red and black paint, fitting with the choice of colours – until the point where the room looks very different. This can show some sort of progression, from the clean and calm of the original room, to the now broken down chaos of the room at the end, reflecting the break down in the relationship.

THE NARRATIVE BIT
The narrative will focus around a couple and their relationship (obviously). At the very beginning of the video, during the build up of the song, we see a vase type thing, filled with flowers, flying through the air, and hitting a wall in a house, all in slo mo. We don’t see anything else apart from that, creating some sort of interest as to what is going on. All this is cut between shots of the band. I think the band should be the main focus of the first part of the song, and the first drop should focus almost entirely on them and the room their in to show the progression and the change. During the drop/skrillex bit, there will be loads of quick cuts and cool editing.

We then have from 1.36 to 2.58 to do this next bit of narrative.
Second Verse
When we return to the verse, we are introduced to our two characters, a guy and a girl (for the sake of it, Harry and Sally). The two are sitting on a sofa, watching some tv, in each others arms looking happy, they are affectionate to one another. The guy then gets a text, from another girl, a provocative text saying something along the lines of ‘when are you gonna come round again baby ;)’ from a different female. From this, we obviously get an idea that he’s not a faithful guy. Sally see’s the text and reacts, being a bit like ‘what the is that?’, but Harry shrugs it off and tells her its nothing, and kisses her and takes her back in his arms, Sally still looks unsure though.
This obviously will have no sound, but we’ll get the idea of what’s going on. This will still be cut with the band, but to a lesser degree.

We then see Harry and Sally walking down a high street/a road with shops, and they see a guy selling roses. Harry stops to buy Sally a few – the same flowers that we see flying across the room at the beginning of the video. She looks happy and kisses him and they continue to walk on, but as they do so, they walk past another girl who Harry makes eyes with and we get the impression this is the girl that text him (for arguments sake, we’ll call her Sophie). Sally see’s Harry looking at Sophie and pulls away from him and walks away, but he runs to catch up.

The final scene is Sally coming home. We see her come through the front door, and look around a bit, but then she stops because she can hear something. She puts down her keys and walks back into the living room, where she see’s Harry and Sophie making out.
At this point, 2.59, she switches. She goes and grabs the vase with the flowers off the table, chucks them at the couple – maybe she then walks up and pulls the hair of Sophie? Maybe she just shouts a bit and runs out of the room. She grabs her keys, runs out of the house, leaving the front door open, jumps in her car and drives off. The music ends on a final ‘ding’, perhaps showing that she is finally triumphant and free of Harry.

All the while through this narrative there will be cuts to the band performing, particularly in the skrillex bits.

So with this idea, we have all our cool slow motion at the beginning, we have the symbolism of the flowers, we have progression with the band, (also, I really think we should have a drummer in the band, as well as the lead singer and the two dj’s, as we can some cool shots of him and its just something extra).