The document outlines Nataya Lawrence's plan for a music video for Olivia Rodrigo's song "Brutal." The plan is to depict teenage struggles in a comedic light-hearted way and show the main character having a change of heart at the end by finding positives in life and learning to love themselves. The video will have a colorful, saturated color palette representing the fantasy of teenage life contrasted with depicting reality. Camera shots will include mid-shots, dolly zooms, overhead shots, extreme close-ups, worm-eye views, and long shots in settings like a bedroom, field, and studio.

1. A Level Media Music
Video Plan
- NATAYA LAWRENCE

2. Why I chose this song:
The song I’ve chosen is Olivia
Rodrigo’s “Brutal” I believe it’s very
relatable and juggles topics such as
insecurities, comparison , mental
health and generally how the
media’s main market are teenage
girls and how they profit off of our
insecurities. In Olivia’s case, this
judgement comes form the music
industry themselves and the
pressures and ideas forced onto her.
However, this directly related to
teens nowadays with social media
it’s hard to separate reality from the
romanticised version of reality we
ingest from social media.
LYRICS:

3. MINDMAP PLAN:

4. The general idea:
- Not a narrative music video.
- More of a general video depicting
teenage struggles in a comedic light-
hearted way.
- The song itself never quite comes to a
positive ending as it mainly highlights
bad things about teenage life however
in this music video I was to express that
but also show my main character having
a change of heart at the end and finding
the positives in life ultimately learning to
love themselves

5. The song I’ve chosen may not
work with the theme of love so
another song I’d explore instead is
another one of Olivia’s songs
“Jealous, jealous” which is pretty
similar in terms of the themes
discussed in “Brutal” but is easier
to link the overall theme of the
music video.
COLOUR PALLET AND
CONFLICTS WITH
THE THEME:
I want to have a colourful and
saturated colour pallet with a
main focus on oranges,
purples and pinks. This will be
done through editing and
colour correction after the
video is filmed. I want it to be
bright and colourful to
represent the fantasy that is
the “teenage dream” with the
juxtaposition of depicting the
reality, that not everything is
always perfect and polished
the media portrays teen life to
be.

6. MOOD BOARD

7. CAMERA
SHOTS/ANGLE
S:
Mid-shot
Dolly zoom
Over-head shot
Extreme close-up
Worm-eye view
Long shot

8. SETTING:
My bedroom
A field
Studio