Treatment

Our music video is 'Bastille - What Would You Do'. We chose this song because of the indie/pop genre and how wide that leaves our possibilities of filming abstract and emotional scenes. It also has an extremely strong underlying narrative which we really think we can use in all of our shots.

Our narrative consists of the main star alongside a female actor. They have a relationship which becomes apparent throughout the music video as it transpires. The female character is essentially a prostitute. This will be made clear through costume and props which are stereo-typically associated with prostitutes and their line of work. This will be done subtly as we are predominantly searching for the emotion from the video as opposed to focussing on the nature of the job. 

The target audience is definitely within the young adult and teenage bracket as a lot of Bastille's music is very popular with that. This works in our favour as we are young adults ourself and can add elements that we think would appeal to us. We were then also able to use characters that are from that age range too which is especially helpful when we have a lot of strong performers and actors at hand to us from our school.

We predict that our video will have a strong dark nature to it. This will include the collection of props, the settings and the lighting. We will use low key lighting along with a low saturation level in post production so that the audience can experience the sad feelings that will be coming from the actors and actresses. The costume already has quite a dark nature as the clothes are predominantly black or grey with parts of white or in the case of the female character, the showing of skin will be the only other colour we see from her.