*FINAL PITCH*

‘Make out, Fall out, Make up’ – Love is all

This track adheres to the band’s prominent theme of confusion by incorporating a deliberately experimental use of instruments, which is becoming more and more popular within the music industry, and assists widening the awareness of the ‘experimental’ genre of music. Some more of Love is all’s characteristic components, with regards to their individual style, is that they create pictures of confusion and misunderstanding, because they claim to be inspired by such; they use quite a fast pace, an experimental use of instruments, a convergence of the pop, punk, indie and experimental genres of music and a purposely portrayed sense of disarray.

The video will portray the theme of confusion, but in such a way that it is understandable to the audience because the audio will be accompanied by the visual aid of the video footage. To save the video from being cliché, it will involve an abstract use of shots and editing techniques, such as: fast pace, perspective shots, layering of footage, montage, flashbacks, cross cutting (from the live performance to the narrative), and split screen (as a physical representation of a break-up). The camera and editing techniques will effectively act as metaphors to portray the song’s meanings.

Imagine a girl walking in distress down the street, a variety of close-ups portraying her distress and confusion, having obviously broken up with her boyfriend. The song speaks of “the night before”, and through the lyric’s repeating of such we shall use this as an opportunity for flash backs to “the night before”, and then return to her retrospect of the events as she half walks and half stumbles down the street. Meanwhile we shall juxtapose the surreal nightmarish situation in which the girl finds herself to the live performance through the use of cross-cutting and split screen.

The use of fast editing will come into effect when the music speeds up, and during this crescendo a series of flashbacks will flicker on the screen (memories of the previous night, images of her and her boyfriend when they were together) flashing by so fast that the audience just about catches them and longs for more insight. The effect of the series of flashbacks will be to symbolise and ending to her relationship, just like one’s life is said to flash before their eyes before death, and also will reflect the atmosphere of confusion built throughout the video; which conveys to the audience her personal perspective of the world at the present.

Due to present and past being prominent themes within the piece, fast and slow motion shall be used to represent such. For example; there shall be a flashback to a party she was at the night before where the break-up occurred, she shall be sitting still and centred in the frame, whilst behind her and around her the party guests dance and drink in fast motion.

The cinematography shall be striking; the themes of love, confusion and misunderstanding shall be conveyed by using a vast amount of camera angles and movements, including:

Slow motion.
Fast motion.
Split screen.
Varying focus.
Layering footage.
Contrasting black and white with colour.

- Experimental/avant-garde shots.
- Cross cuts between performance and narrative.
- Fast editing/Quick cuts to match pace of music.
- Lip synching
- Mechanical looking (performance)
- Based on the night before.
- Smooth flow of narrative.
- Stop animation but using the actual actors, symbolistic representation of the way the girl's emotions control her, captured in a non-literal metaphorical sense. E.g. split screen representing the split.
- Indie music- therefore abstract and experimental techniques.
-Aim- to make the audience feel how she feels, the prominent theme of confusion always present E.g. the use of flashbaks and montage feel will assist the creation of a confusing atmosphere.

The style of the video will be contemporary and visually striking to correspond with the music itself, and also to communicate to the audience the surreal and confusing feel of disarray that making out, falling out and making up hold.