The Song: Fear & Force by Vagabon; it belongs to the indie rock genre. The target audience of the artist is people in the 16-20 age group.
Director: Wiktoria Wojciechowska
Summary: The music video to Fear & will explore the themes of sadness and relationship, so prevalent in the song; I want to convey these as well as I can, while simultaneously keeping the concept relatively simple. It will feature a female character, surrounded by yarn - which I plan on using as a representation of the relationship between her and a different person - laying on a bed in a white room.
Throughout the video, which will be a mixture of conceptual and narrative, with subtle performance elements, the action will remain in that single room, focusing on the emotions and struggles of the introduced character, who will act as a representation of the artist.
Director’s Vision:
The video will open with a long establishing shot of yarn moving with a subtle blow of wind, fading from black; the song title will appear on the screen, written in the same font as the lettering on the digipack of the album.
Following that, a shot of a bedroom from the door’s perspective will fill the frame, a bed with a person laying on it, dominating the frame; every visible piece of furniture will be white, and so will the bedsheets.
The character will be surrounded by red yarn, which will be suspended from the ceiling and covering the bed frame; she will have a little bow knot tied around her ring finger, in the image of a wedding ring, to implicitly show how it represents a relationship. A later shot will show that peculiar ring up close, allowing the audience to infer the importance of the yarn.
As soon as the artist begins to sing the lyrics of the song, the video is going to cut to a shot to the eyes of the character opening; such an intimate extreme close up will show the person watching all of the character’s emotions; eyes are called the ‘windows to the soul’ for a reason. First close shot of the character being so personal is a great way to make the audience feel connected to the character straight away.
The next shot will be an almost aerial one, with the character in the centre; she’s going to turn to the side, with a change of shot mid-way so that the audience can still see her face. For a few moments the camera is going to stay in that position, so that the audience can identify the emotions of the character clearly.
She’s going to start playing with the yarn, fully aware of its existence, which is partially going to represent how the relationship has become a visible thought, following her everywhere.
That shot will be followed by a close up of her hand, fiddling with the yarn, in an almost automatic manner and stopping abruptly, which will then cut to a few long shots/pans on the yarn around the room (similar to the title shot of the video).
Next cut will take the camera back to the character, sitting up against the bed frame, hugging her knees to her body, a very vulnerable position (a play on the words ‘’I’ve been hiding in the smallest places’’), crying silently.
She will then start making shapes with the yarn, and the shot will go into another aerial one. Once the character forms a shape with the yarn, there is a glitch to another aerial shot, that time one of the introduced character and ‘Freddy’, sleeping peacefully.
The video will cut back to the character sitting alone on the bed, quickly destroying the shape she made - like that was the reason for the sudden flashback - while shaking her head and crying; showing the audience that the memories of that person are painful to her.
As soon as she gets rid of the shape, she’ll hug her knees again and put her cheek on them - at the precise moment when her face touches her legs the camera is going to cut to a long shot on the character’s side.
At the chorus of the song, she’ll put her chin on her knees and one of the only elements of lip syncing is going to begin, with the shot ending with the character putting her head up against the bed frame.
During the second verse of the song, the character will return back to laying position; visibly resigned, bored, almost. The video will cut to an empty, white shot of the bed, with her entering the frame while laying down. Then, a cut to a shot of her in the same position, showing her from the side. At the line ‘’You say I will never change my ways’’ a vertically mirrored shot of Freddy, in the same position as the character, singing the lines with her, will appear at the top of the frame; a more unique split screen, showing an impossible arrangement of shots.
During the chorus, and a bit before the fast bit of the song, the character will sit up again, clenching the fists on the covers; a wide shot of the front of her will show her breathing heavily.
As soon as the energetic bit of the song begins, the character will look to her side, visibly determined.
Then, the camera will go to a profile shot, the character will wipe away her tears - using the hand with the yarn tied around the ring finger. Still within the same shot, she will start getting up from the bed; during that action, the camera is going to cut back to the front shot, in a smooth alternation between the two perspectives.
The character will start gently taking the yarn off the walls, the floor, the bed frame - everywhere. During that sequence, there is going to be plenty of jumpcuts, in order to speed up the action, and alterations of the 180 degree rule to represent the chaotic thoughts of the character at that particular moment in time.
As the ending of the song approaches, the editing is going to slow down, the yarn cleaned up, with the last remaining string being the one tied around her finger.
A mid shot will show the character looking at the knot, then cut to her very gently touching it, and cut to a close up of her smiling while looking down. She’s going to take of the peculiar ring and put it with the rest of the yarn, and hide it in a box.
The last shot is going to be an extremely long shot of her leaving the bedroom, with the box being the only object remaining on the bed and breaking the white aesthetic of the setting, slowly fading to black.
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