06 Planning Website

Website Mockup- Version 1

05 Planning Production

 1st Concept: Music Video Vision Board

 1st Concept: Music Video symbolism and sub-text 

The protagonist (Actor #1) has been traumatised/emotionally scarred in the past. It can be interpreted that she has lost a friend (death/broken up friendship/separated) but she is still haunted by the memory of that person. She imagines seeing her friend in different situations, like at the beach, painting a picture etc (‘And for a moment I thought you were here. But then again, it wasn't true’). It is evident that she has been trying to repress her emotions and ignoring it (Oh, lyin' in secret to myself, I've been putting sorrow on the farthest place on my shelf’), but it has overwhelmed her (‘I can't take it anymore’) 

 The chorus in the music video is used to portray how many versions of that past friend are haunting her mind, running alongside her, as she is ‘running far away’ from her problems. In the symbolic moment when the “spirits” hold her back to the lyric ‘nobody knows, nobody knows’, they are used as a variation of an obtrusive narrator who otherwise have no genuine interaction with the protagonist, and only performs this aside during the chorus. They are trying to convey to the audience how isolated and alone the main character feels (since of course the spirit representations of her friend are not real), and how she has struggled to communicate her issues with others so ‘nobody knows’.  

The line ‘And I was dancing in the rain, I felt alive and I can't complain’ is the character attempting to convince herself that she is fine, while seemingly physically becoming more unravelled and emotional. The chorus finishes with, what will be the protagonists parting statement in the final refrain, ‘but no, take me home, take me home where I belong, I can't take it anymore’. The protagonist has become completely overcome by emotion at this point.

1st Concept: Shooting Script- (scanned document)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small Cut of 1st potential music video

2nd Concept: Music Video Moodboard

 

 

 

 

 

2nd Concept: Music Video Meaning and Sub-Text

'Ballad of a Homeschooled girl' tells the story of an insecure teenage girl, struggling to fit in as she navigates a new social life. Everything she tries seems to make her stand out more among her peers as she is unable to determine social protocols. Each situation becomes more and more awkward, and the tricky situations become more and more embarrassing.