My music video idea

My music video if going to be for the song 'After rain' by Dermot Kennedy and it is going to be a mainly narrative video with shorter shots of performance throughout the video. My idea for the narrative is the story of a relationship between a boy and girl, their breakup and the effect of the break up on the boy.

At the beginning of the video I am going to open with some establishing shots of the two different locations I am going to use- a beach landscape and a teenagers bedroom. This will set the scene for the video and also help with setting the mood through the use of lighting, colour and props. I am going to begin the video with shots of a couple who are in love, I will show them interacting with each other and expressing their love for each other, as the song progresses I am going to include some shots of the couple loosing their spark and becoming more distant with each other. This will set the scene for the break up that will come around the half-way mark of the song. After including some shots of the couple fighting and the girl walking out I will include some shots of the boy pining over her. I am going to put emphasis on his loneliness- this illustrates the lyrics in the songs, "you won't go lonely", and the lead up to his downfall. The video will then follow his decision to return to the beach that holds to many happy memories of him and her and then show his toying with the idea of killing himself.

I think that my video will fit with other music videos of  the Indie genre and that it also presents conventions of the sub-genre, Indie-folk, that will target the right audience. In my research I found that many Indie music videos are of a narrative style and many songs in this genre tell stories of the artist and that videos that give the audience a narrative are very commonly used. They help the audience connect better with the song and better understand the artist.