2. Possible Songs
Disconnected – 5 Seconds of Summer
Mirrors – Justin Timberlake
You Need Me, I Don’t Need You – Ed Sheeran
Stereo Hearts – Gym Class
Heroes ft. Adam Levine
I Knew You Were Trouble – Taylor Swift
Voices – Disclosure ft. Sasha Keable
Look Right Through – Storm Queen
3. You Need Me, I Don’t Need You
• Narrative & Performance
• Capture the ‘laid back’ feel of the genre, artist and song
• Performance: ‘busking’ style of performance. E.g. Park
• Narrative: Relating to the lyrics – fast paced, related to
performance (e.g. people think that I’m bound to blow up,
I’ve done around about 1000 shows but, I haven’t got a house
plus I live on the couch ---- I’m selling CDs from my rucksack
aiming for the papers, selling CDs from my rucksack aiming for
the majors)
Ed Sheeran
4. Disconnected
• Narrative (and possibly performance)
• Theme of song – when the two people are together they shut of
their phones etc and ‘become disconnected’.
• Narrative – shots of people on phone calls, texting, social
networking etc. Between these have several recurring characters
(e.g. two friends on phones instead of talking, person not giving
their dog attention – too busy on the phone, couple sitting
together texting)
• By the end of the video, the recurring characters begin to notice
each other and spend time with each other rather than with
other people via texting etc.
• Performance – would suit the genre, as a ‘punk rock/pop’ band,
music videos conventionally have a performance element to the
video.
5 Seconds of Summer
5. Mirrors
• Narrative & Performance
• Lip Syncing performer – one location, shots of performer
interspersed in the main narrative
• Narrative – Several characters (approx. 4) each looking at
themselves in the mirror and seeing their flaws/imperfections.
Possibly each person has one main flaw that they see which is
an ‘issue’ focused on in their part of the video.
Justin Timberlake
6. Other Ideas
Look Right Through – Storm Queen
• Narrative – Two main characters, one elaborately weird and
one slightly awkward looking. Cut between both walking, but
no one noticing them. Ends with them both finding each
other.
Stereo Hearts – Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine
• Narrative & Performance - Using the comparison to the
relationship with a person and an old vinyl record as
described in the song (e.g. “if I was just another dusty record
on the shelf, would you blow me off and play me like
everybody else?”)
