Music Video Final Idea

After shortlisting tracks and meeting as a group, and with our teachers, we have decided on our final idea for our music video. The song we have chosen is Goin' Down - The Pretty Reckless:



Lyrics:

Hey there Father, I don't wanna bother you
But I've got a sin to confess
I'm just sixteen if you know what I mean
Do you mind if I take off my dress?
Don't know where to start, let me get to the good parts
Might wanna cross up your legs
I've got envy, I've got greed, anything that you need
And I'm not above having to beg

There was this boy who
Tore my heart in two
I had to lay him
Eight feet underground

I need someone to save me
'Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is someone to save me
'Cause I am goin' down
All the way down

Well hey there Father, there is just one other thing
I have a simple request
I hear you know God, could you give him a nod
In my direction, I'd be in your debt
Perhaps there is something that we could work out
I notice your breathing is starting to change
We could go in the back behind all these shacks
And these bibles and get out of this cage

There was this boy who
Tore my heart in two
I had to lay him
Eight feet underground

I need someone to save me
'Cause I am goin' down
And what I need is someone to save me
'Cause I am goin' down
All the way down

I didn't wanna do it Father
But I caught him with another woman
In the bed I made
And so I put him in a grave
And now there's no one left around
To get me off when I wanted to drag
The next day on the television
They identified him by the circumcision
That I made and now I'm on the run but wait
Why did I have to go and kill him
When he was the best I ever had?

All I need is someone to save me
'Cause I am goin' down
What I need is something to save me
'Cause God I'm goin' down
All the way down

I'm going down
All the way down

Initial Idea
The idea for our music video is that the artist is performing the song in a black room, with different lights on different objects. Along with the performance, there is also the narrative of a flashback of the story being told by the artist which is edited in.

For the performance, we will have the band members performing to the camera in a dark room, which will have lit candles to give the idea of a church / religious place. Throughout the song the performance aspect of the video will show all of the band members in typical 'rockband' poses playing their instruments. At the end of the song, the camera will zoom away from the lead singer to show the dark room with the candles, except only the lead singer will be lit, so it shows her to be alone in the semi-darkness.
The narrative will be intercut throughout the video. The video will be in the style of a flashback, which will start with the female character in a wood next to a shallow grave. This will then move on to the girl getting angry and destructive and smashing objects / burning photos of the her and the boy together.
During the bridge "I didn't want to do it....Best I ever had?" we will have a short, animation-style narrative which shows the girl with the boy having a good time (our original plan is for them to be at a fairground, but this may not be very practical nearer the time) and then cuts to the girl finding the boy with another girl.
Finally, after the short pause before the finale there will be more smashing and destruction before the song ends and she leaves the grave in the wood.

Influences

• Kill Bill Woman
• It's My Life (Music Video) - No Doubt
• Paramore, although we want to be less Pop-y
• Pretty Reckless