initial ideas

one of our far fetched ideas is that we could film part of our video in Paris, as it is the city of love we think it would be ironic as the song we have chosen, "Charlotte", is is about a lads heartache over a girl who doesn't want him.

more realistically, there is a more simple and less expensive choice to stay within Cambridge and film the video there. we thought that utilizing some of the lyrics in the video could be very easy to do as they are very visual lyrics which can be presented with ease in our video.

the narrative of the song is that the lad is having a really rough time due to a girl who he is in love with. the problem is that she dos not feel the same way. from the lyrics we got the impression that the girl is either ignoring him and it is ruin his life. we came to this conclusion from certain lyrics such as "let go, you gotta lose control" and the idea of his life being ruined came from lyrics such as"i'm wasted, face down on the floor".

our initial ideas for the visual aspects would be very illustrative as they would show what the lyrics are describing. we imagine it to start with the boy walking the street, as he is doing so the girl walks past him and completely blanks, this refers to the lyrics,"i'll be by your side, each and everyday" this frustrates him as he shows this by turning and crying the lyrics to her, "let go you've gotta lose control". continuing into the song for the chorus we were imagining the video to be shot at a party environment, where he is just getting drunk and drowning his sorrows, "i'm wasted, face down on the floor, can't take anymore". Or another translation of those particular lyrics could be that he is "waasted" as in he is out of enrgy and effort as he is spending all his time trying to convince this girl that he loves her and that they should be together.

furthermore we were considering shooting it in hindsight where there will be shots of a band playing on a stage with flashbacks to the story/narrative.

this is the already existig video:


this, in comrparrison to our ideas, is not very illustrative.