Group: Final concept development

Below is the songs lyrics, along with the individual shots that are going to be shown alongside each line of dialogue.

At the start of the video there is about 18 seconds of intro, during this time we will display the titles on a plain black background with a bold white font for around 5 seconds. After this we will have our artist walking into the first location (plain white or black room) as if there is no camera and he is setting up and getting ready to start performing.
I tried to get you to communicate instead of walking out on everything

I said let's have it out, let's go wild

Two months ago we were talking bout a wedding now we're walking past each other in a Tesco aisle

(this shot is going to be a CU or MS of the artist performing the lines in the first location (plain room with one solid colour 0:19-0:26)

I'm as bitter as the Boddingtons I drown my sorrows in   
(The artist will be holding a can of boddingtons as an MS in the next location, in a fairly plain bedroom with choice items in the background - nike shoes, supreme poster)

I heard about that Gotye sound and borrowed it

Since you went and left all my sympathetic friends said,

"Don't worry, she's gonna come around tomorrow, kid"

They mean well but I don't believe that babe

Tomorrow never comes, I never see that day

(These lines are all going to be performed in the council estate location with pan around artist.)

You're the exit sign I hunt for above the front door

(This line will be performed infront of a plain white wall which has an exit sign, possibly a wall in our school, and as the artist says the line he will subtly look at the exit sign the camera will pan so that the sign becomes visible in the shot.)

Because you really didn't have to leave that way

But that wasn't enough
(These two lines will be performed in the same location as before as a CU)
 

You grabbed all of your stuff

(This line will be performed at the bedroom location, he may or may not be lip syncing, and he will be holding a bin bag full of 'stuff')

I just sat alone in the flat, calling your bluff

Then I tried to call you after a couple of days
(this will be shot at the bedroom location, low angle sitting on bed maybe)

Your position was the same but your number was changed

(same as above but artist holds up an old style phone.)

But you didn't have to cut me off (Tearing up a photo)

Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing (Vignette ,hazy, dream like shot of couple)

And I don't even need your love

But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough (Woman shouting at man, arguing)

No you didn't have to stoop so low

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number (Woman walking away)

I guess that I don't need that though

Now you're just somebody that I used to know (shot in dark with flashlight on)

 

 

Now you're just somebody that I used to know (Burning of a picture)

Now you're just somebody that I used to know

 

 

I used to have a place in your heart now you probably don't even see my face in your head

(shot as MS at plain white location artist touches his heart during line)

I may as well go to sleep in sky, because I see too much space in the bed
(Shot in bedroom location, birds eye of artist laying in bed performing)

I wanna break off the dial every tune
Because every song on the radio reminds me of you
(the artist sits up from the previous shot and hols up an old school radio shot as MS at eyeline level)
But I can't make a record selection since your friend came to collect your collection
(shot at a CD shop, artist flicking through CDs, swish pan transition to next shot)

If I ever told I could let you go please believe I only said it in the heat of the moment
Amy Winehouse said loves a losing game she was right because I don't even see my opponent
What hurts most is that you vanished by choice, now I feel lower than Barry White's voice

(shot at rural location handheld track of artist, holds up bottle of vanish during final line.)

Now I'm in the lobby of a studio writing a song about somebody that I used to know

 



 

But you didn't have to cut me off (Loads of photos torn up on the ground)

Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing

And I don't even need your love (Vignette ,hazy, dream like shot of couple becoming seperated)

But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

No you didn't have to stoop so low (bottle smashing on wall, slow motion/reverse?)

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number

I guess that I don't need that though

Now you're just somebody that I used to know (shot behind plain board)

 



 

Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know (roaring flames)