Through gathering various research and information from our chosen music genre, we found that that people most enjoy aspects of exterior locations and rave scenes when imagining a Dubstep music video. We discovered that our target audience found narratives, concept and visual art most appealing and worth watching because they were interested in fresh, innovative ideas. Instead of sticking to the typical genre codes and conventions of being ‘normal’ and ‘mainstream correct’ music video, we decided to take on fairly strong themes towards this Dubstep music video. Our group has chosen to take certain aspects from each person’s proposal and use them to develop a video that centres around the theme of Janay’s proposal about the young girl battling a drug addiction.
The video will start off with low angle shots, showing a girl in her late teens/early 20s whose name is brooke, coming in from a night out, she enters her bedroom (a posh hotel room) looking rough and haggard, implying that she’s had a serious night out in the city. As she walks into the room, she drops her high-heels on to the floor and walks into the bathroom. She starts to vomit up blood and then proceeds to undress and run a bath. Whilst the bath is running, she comes back into the bedroom and winds up a ballerina jewellery box. As she opens the box to reveal its contents, we see that it’s an array of drugs: cocaine, marijuana, heroin and pills. We also see a large roll of money, which indicates to us that she is very rich, or perhaps work of ‘cash in hand’ like drug smuggling or prostitution. She takes a few pills and snorts a line cocaine. She wipes the remains of cocaine off her nose and lies back on the bed, where she starts to think about the night’s events.
As she slips into a dream like state, we see the beginning of the night’s events unfolding. To indicate that this is a flashback, there will be shot of a clock but played in reverse. She is firstly seen sitting alone on in a cab that is heading into Central London. She steps out of the taxi, pays the fair and walks up through a main road with smoke behind her (referencing the 80’s movie’ Taxi’).
We start to see Brooke walking through the West End and she eventually meets up with two of her friends. They start to look out for a nightclub to go into. While this is happening, we also see shots of people ready to party, nightclubs and traffic connotating the West End’s vibrant nightlife. Every club they go to has a very long queue. The group eventually join one but leave as they are fed up of the queue taking too long and they are very cold. They decide to just buy their own alcohol from an off-licence so they can just get drunk and roam around the West End to have a goodtime. As they are in the middle of drinking, there is a moment where Brooke zones out in her mind and becomes unfocused of what is going on around her. Her friends ask her if she is okay and she pulls out of bag of cocaine from her handbag. Her friends are not willing to take them and get into an argument with Brooke as she is already in a bad state but she is prepared to make herself worse. She becomes very frustrated and tells her friends to “piss off”. We then see the group splitting apart with the camera being on the otherside of the road.
Brooke walks into a dark corner, sprinkles and snorts up a line of cocaine. When she walks back to the main road in her disorientated and drugged up state, she seems to be looking for something, but the audience does not know what it is. She look around a few corners, but only finds people that she doesn’t know doing random/unrelated actions such as; gambling, vomiting and kissing. She also sees a tramp sitting by a corner as well as a hooker looking for customers.
Pre-occupied by all this she accidentally bumps into a man. He helps her up and blows smoke into her face with a grin on his face. As the smoke clears we see that he is an ex-boyfriend who she was previously in an abusive relationship with. He grips her hand and doesn’t let go. She struggles to get of him but finally escapes by pushing him back. As she breaks free she starts running frantically and trips over. Her tights rip and she beings to cry. He goes towards her to help her up and offers her some of his drugs. Her state of loneliness makes her affections draw back to him and they begin to talk to each other.
They eventually walk reach a park bench where they sit down. She takes out a bottle of vodka from her bag and forces the drink down her throat and offers some to him, but he declines. She then takes her shoes off and twirls around on the grass to relish her mind-state. The ex-boyfriend takes out a roll-up of marijuana, lights it up and shares it with Brooke. After this, while taking of her jacket, she starts to realise that her ex-boyfriend could be up to something bad and has a flashback of her boyfriend slapping her. After the flashback, we see him stroking her cheek and she shakes her head, She quickly pushes him onto the floor very violently and runs away – which then the screen fades down.
We revisit the beginning of the music video, seeing her walking down the hotel hallway. As she gets close to her door, she takes a fall but is helped up by another man. Because of the earlier events, she is still scared and screams and pushes him away. When she enters the door, she walks over to the bed to sleep but finds that she is already on the bed, dead from an overdose.
During all of these scenes, we have cutaways to shots of a performance. In this, features the singer and a guitarist under a floodlight, sitting in an all black studio performing towards a camera. This would contain various shots of angles, distance and parts of the face and body.
Location – Central London, Hyde Park and the Grymsdyke hotel.
Time of day – Night.
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