Due to our previous narrative being too complex and time consuming for the song we had chosen, I realised we had to reconsider our narrative and try to make it a little simpler. I decided to remove the character of 'the ex-boyfriend' and instead of showing flashbacks of different times between the couple, just show flashbacks of their date that day. This meant our narrative was not only shorter, but also easier to film as we didn't need to use different costume, a wider variety of locations or props.
The narrative of our music video will now begin with the artist walking the girl home after a date. They say goodbye, but he loses his confidence, so he leaves without kissing her. On his walk home, he has flashbacks (in chronological order) about their date, this will be the performance side of the video as the artist will be singing these scenes. At the end of the flashbacks, the ending changes and he imagines kissing her at the end. It returns to present time, he stops and realises '[he] should have kissed [her]' so goes back to her (This is where we hope to incorporate the placard scene). The video will end on the couple together, and hopefully include an intertextual reference to the 'kissing in the rain scene' from the 2004 film 'The Notebook' directed by Nick Cassavetes. Except our scene would involve snow, relying on weather conditions, to relate it to our 'winter theme'.
In our narrative, we have slightly challenged Vladimir Propp's character theory, as even though our main artist is the hero of the video, the main girl will not be portrayed as a damsel in distress. Even though, following the idea that every girl must wait for her 'prince', the girl waits through the whole of their date for him to kiss her, in the end it is her who takes controls and makes the decisions. In doing this we have presented her as more of a modern day independant women, causing our main lead to appear less like the conventional male R&B womanizer.
When choosing our actors, I aimed for the conventional black male lead, reinforcing the R&B stereotype. However the girl I decided to use challanges all conventions of R&B music videos, as muslim Bangladeshi females never appear in the videos. By doing this I am representing a more independant and westernised muslim Bangeladeshi population.
In addition, the romance genre of the concept of my music video and the references I have to films such as; Love Actually, The Last Song and What Happens In Vegas, will be recognisable among the majority of my female audience due to classic romance Hollywood films and literature.
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