Additional Screenshots

Love Triangle Scene

For this part of the music video we chose to have the female sat on the bench alone looking on her phone, something which a lot of modern teenagers always use waiting for someone to come and see her. We decided to have another male come to see her even though she is meant to be with somebody else and this is a good example of a love triangle that happens in everyday life. 

We thought that having the male walk up towards the female and show him hug her, the audience will instantly think that something is going to happen, as this isnt the same guy that was shown at the start of the video. A hug symbolises that they like that person as they want to get close towards them which again is a romance convention.

A close up shot allows the audience to see the facial expressions on both the actors,  and the females facial expression allows the audience to see that she is happy but we had the male looking towards the female so that we couldn't see his facial expression and this left the audience thinking what is his facial expression and how does he feel. They both wore casual clothing as this allowed them to be the same as all other teenagers and they don't stand out from anyone else, and this shows that they are the same and they even though they might differ from other teenagers they all go through the same situations at some points in their lives.

We wanted a long shot to show the audience the female and the male sat on the bench alone. We thought that the park was the best location for this situation because a park is a location that couples go for walks and picnics, and we wanted to show somewhere that other people would be able to associate as well as they might be in the same situation as the female in the video.

We wanted to have her boyfriend also enter the scene as this is a good example of a typical love triangle, and he walks into the scene to see his girlfriend sat there laughing and flirting with another guy, and because he is upset he reacts badly and takes it out on the other male instead of the female.

In this screenshot you see the two males pushing each other around with implies that something has gone wrong and as we see the guy in the black coat push the other guy the audience can see that it is the other male that is in the wrong. This leaves the female stood in the middle of the two and she realises that she has done wrong, and this is the point in the song when everything starts to go wrong for her as she slowly loses everyone that meant something to her, and this fits well with the lyrics of the song and also the theme of the song, which is something that you typically see is pop music videos.



In this screenshot we see the female walk away with the other male, leaving her boyfriend stood there alone. Again this may not have been what the audience were expecting to happen as they could of expected her to go back with her boyfriend. We chose to have this situation, as when we were researching what good ideas to put into our music video we found a love triangle attracted a lot of audience's attention. We used a mid shot for this, as we felt this focused more onto the couple and situation happening, instead of a long shot where the focus could have been taken away from showing more background.



Photo album scene

I felt that this shot over the shoulder was a good shot to use here as it allowed the audience to see the female and also what she was looking at. We wanted to include a photo album somewhere into the music video and we felt it would be more appropriate towards the end when she reflects on what she has done throughout the video.

In this screenshot we see the female getting to a certain photo in the album then taking it out of the album and ripping it in two leaving her on one of the torn sides and him on the other. This symbolises the female realising that she cant keep hoping that everything is going to go back to how it used to be with him, when she ruined everything. She then turns around and on this moment the lyrics say 'Im going to make it on my own' and this shows that she doesnt need anybody else she can cope just fine on her own.

We used a long shot here to show the female throwing the two torn pieces of photo onto the floor, so that the audience can see that even though she is looking through old memories of her and her ex, she has decided to move on and is going to make it on her own. At the point when she starts throwing the pieces of picture onto the floor and the moment they land on the floor the lyics 'Im going to make it on my own' are sung and this implies that she doesnt need him anymore and she is going to make it on her own. We did slow this clip down in the video to create more emphasis on what is actually happening and therefore the audience can see what is on the picture.

We then zoomed in from a long shot to a close up, to allow the audience to clearly see the picture torn in two on the floor. We thought that this clearly symbolises a relationship over when she decides she doesnt need anybody else to make her happy, and even though she is alone now she is going to make it on her own. We wanted quite a plain background so therefore the audience could focus more onto both parts of the photo. I think positioning the torn half of the female on the top half of the shot and the torn half of the male on the bottom half of the shot implies that maybe she has come out of this stronger, and that she is now looking down on the male.