Treatment

Our music video is going to promote the You Me At Six single Stay With Me. The idea for our video is about the story of a boy and a girl, and the breakdown of their relationship. This (love, relationships, the breakdown of said relationships) is a common theme for You Me At Six’s songs and as such, we decided to continue with this theme. The tone of the song and they lyrics also played a major part in this.
The video will be a mix of narrative and performance. With the narrative taking a slightly fragmented form, it will be chronologically linear, but with flashbacks, the desired effect once editing is complete is that the mix of narrative, flashback (of which there are 2) and performance will create a video that feels fragmented. This is because we want it to reflect the emotions of our main character in the video.
The plot of the narrative is that of a young man who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, saying that she no longer wants a relationship. He then goes home and sees all of the pictures of them together, and possessions which start the series of flash backs, then we cut to some time shortly later (a week or 2 later) in which we see him talking to a friend via text etc, in which he is told to go after her. He does and as he is talking to her, her new boyfriend comes round the corner, resulting in him leaving and the girl now being the one who is upset. Intercut with this is performance video of the band and a few scenes of the girl out with her new boyfriend