Treatment

Artist: Parazali

Song: Cell mate

Genre: Rock

Outline of narrative:
There will be clips of the band playing and lip-syncing to the song in unplanned places throughout the video as well as the story.

The video opens with an image of a sad looking girl sat on a double bed. She looks like just an ordinary girl, and she is wearing casual clothes e.g. Jeans and a t-shirt. We will then see and image of a key turning in a lock using shallow focus so that when the boy walks away, we cannot see what he looks like. There is a montage of the girl sat in different positions around her room, as well as images of a clock to show the passing of time.

After some time has passed the boy comes back to the room and unlocks the door, we seethe door open from inside the room, and the boy entering. The boy is also dressed casually. He walks over to the girl with an apologetic look on his face and he hugs her softly. She hugs him back but a cut to her face shows us that she has not forgiven him for locking her in there. The couple leave the room holding hands and head downstairs to the lounge where two other boys are sat in casual looking clothes. They look up at the couple briefly, and then turn their attention back to the television they were previously watching. They sit down with the other two. The three boys laugh and talk with each other, but the girl sits there quietly.

The couple are walking through the woods looking happy; we assume it is a new day because their clothes have changed. He smiles at her and she smiles back, but as she turns we realise from her facial expression that she still isn’t happy. There is a flashback to them being genuinely happy in the same woods and then it goes back to present day. We see them talking and he suddenly looks a mixture of offended and angry. We don’t see him do anything to her, but we assume he has as the next time we see her she is sat in the room on her own again and the has some bruises on her arm.

The girl is stood in the kitchen holding a black phone and reading through it. The camera shows us a close up of the screen it reads ‘Can’t wait gorgeous x’ with ‘Laura’ written at the top. We then see her face and she looks hurt; we assume the phone belongs to the boy. The boy then comes into the Kitchen and smiles at the girl. She walks over to him and hands out the phone, a confused and hurt expression on her face. He also looks at the screen but seems very apathetic about it. He simply walks out of the kitchen without saying a word to her, she is left looking unsure.

We are back in the bedroom and the girl is hurriedly packing a bag full of clothes. The boy walks into the room in a manner that suggests he had no idea of what she was doing. He freezes and looks at her shocked while she stands perfectly still staring back at him. We see them start to argue and him lashing out, but we don’t see what is actually happening. We then see the girl sat in the bedroom on her own again. She has a black eye and looks broken down. We leave the video here so that it ends as though it has come full circle. This is used to symbolise that she’s never getting out, relating to the lyrics.

Crew: Megan Lyons, Ed Dobson, Christina Massam, Lucy Cowper, Chris Fox, James Ashwin and Joe Bibby

Resources: Camera, Tripod, Instruments (guitar, drums) Key, Phone