Story Board

I have sketched out the scenes for my music video to make a storyboard. This will  help us visualize and plan our music video clearly.

Mood Board

This is a mood board i put together based on the mental images of what i would like the music video to have or look like.

Music Video Treatment

Now that we have decided that we will be making a video to Breakeven by the script, we have come up with a final treatment of our music video. We have decided to make this video simple, yet effective in the way it shows emotions of a young man singing about heartbreak...

We have analysed the lyrics and realised that he is singing about a women who he feels is not feeling as heartbroken as he is.

"cos she moved on while I'm still grieving

and when a heart breaks no it don't break even"

The above is a part of the lyrics of the song. So for our music video, we decided that we will show a young man playing his acoustic guitar, singing about his broken heart. At the same time, we will be showing the young women, getting on with her daily activities. This shows that "when a heart breaks, it don't breakeven."

Within the video, we will have two settings; one is in a room where they young man will be sitting on a sofa playing his guitar, we have looked at and borrowed some props from our school drama department. the items are old creating a vintage look. This would give the video an urban and more realistic look. The second scene will be around the city at different settings to make it look more natural as the young women is meant to be getting on with her daily activities. We have also decided that for the treatment we will show relation between the couple by adding one black and white scene using a point of view shot. This scene will show the young women smiling and laughing and will have the effect as if the young man is creating a home video whilst they were together.

Style Idea's For Music Video

"Hey there Delilah" by Plain White T

This style of the video for this song was very inspirational for the style of music video me and my group are interested in producing. The video shows different scenes on one screen unfolding a story clearly.

The idea is very original and different which is what we like about it. However, we need to consider the editing that needs to be done which may be time consuming meaning the filming should be done quickly.
























"Goodnight Goodnight" by Maroon 5

This is a similar style video with the screen splitting into sections showing different scenes and unfolding a story. After analysing this i have realised that it could be difficult for the audience to understand what's going on which is why we have decided to slow the movements down.

Ideas for Song

Here is a mind map of songs we have considered for our music video. The similarities between these songs is the fact that they are urban and have a story behind them. We wanted a to create a video that tells the story and portrays the meaning of the lyrics therefore the song we have chosen is Breakeven by The Script.

Video Analysis

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours from Quitoop on Vimeo.


The video starts off with a close-up of a shadow figure, which we automatically believe is Jason Mraz. There are many cuts and as the song starts we see Jason sitting in front of a fish tank, then touching it as if he had just been inspired. For those who know that this is a love song, we begin to understand that these actions mean that he had just realised; “there are plenty of fish in the sea.”

Following from this, we see Jason ready to leave with a rucksack, throwing his house keys at the kitchen table. From this we realise that he does not intend to come back or go back to the past. We are then exposed to the beautiful countryside where Jason gets on the back of a truck singing “Nothings’ gonna stop me but divine interventions” meaning there will be no interference in his freedom but divine involvement.

I believe that the video is about having freedom. The reason for this is because as Jason sings on the back of the truck, there is a establishing shot showing the beautiful greenery of the country side, then a close onto Jason’s face to show his relaxing mood and finally a shot of his lower body showing he has no shoes on and blissfully moving his toes to the beats. All these show that he is now free to do what he wants. While we watch this, Jason sings “I won’t hesitate no more…”

After arriving at another location, Jason is surrounded by a group of young men and young attractive women. They then go in to the river by the waterfall where Jason swims and messes around with the young women in there with him. This automatically makes us go back to the phrase “plenty of fish in the sea,” the fish being the women.

In conclusion I believe the video is about finding freedom and having hope. It does seem that the lyrics are related to most of the actions. I particularly like the way the video cut from one place and straight in to the other for example, there was a time where we were shown a close of the digital clock in a car “13:30” then Jason getting on the back of a truck. The idea of having cuts to show specific items that have meanings is very interesting. The people watching the video straight away tend to think and ask them self why it was there to come up with a meaning.