Treatment
The Feeling- The Sun is Shining
The video opens before the music starts there is a young happy couple walking down a residential street hand in hand. The shot is in the style of an old fashioned video camera. The next shot starts off a black screen and we hear people screaming and arguing then we hear a smash and the next thing we see is the girl falling to the floor.
We then see feet running down the street the camera follows them and slowly moves up their body as they continue to run and we see it is the man from the couple.
As the video continues we see the man continue to run, he sees what he believes is his girlfriend, but she is always ahead of him and in places that they spent time together, we see her in parks where they used to walk and at a fun fair they visited together etc. But as the man reaches where he has seen his girlfriend she is no longer there. As we follow the man the feeling of the video is that he is nervous and unstable.
At each chorus of the song we see the band playing the song and the feeling changes, it becomes happy and upbeat, which is a contrast to when we see the man running. We also see the band playing randomly in the background of scenes where the man is running though they are not a main focus.
Scene One
As the video starts there is no music, there is a video of a couple laughing on an old style video camera, you can hear the crackling of the film and the couple laughing. They look happy and are walking down the street smiling and holding hands. This introduction will last for approximately 15 seconds, with quick shots cut in for 1 second of someone running and all you can hear is heavy breathing and footsteps.
Scene Two
Then there is a black screen for about 2 seconds you hear a smash and then we see the girl fall in front of the camera with broken glass around her, she lays motionless on the floor after a beat the music starts to play.
Scene Three
On the first beat change of the song it goes to seeing the man running along the street, we first see the mans feet at street level, the shots tracks his feet as he runs and the camera moves up his body as he runs until the next beat change at about 15 seconds.
Scene Four
We see from the mans point of view, he sees a girl go round the corner ahead of him, who he believes is his girlfriend. He runs after the girl he has seen, we see him running after the girl from many different angles, and him running from his point of view, as if he is holding the camera, until 22 seconds.
Scene Five
Then the camera is stationery on a street the man runs past along the street he runs over a bridge and the band are in the background again on the other side of the bridge, until 29 seconds. 29 seconds.
Scene Six
The man sees the girl run through a large gate he follows her into a park but nobody is there, he sees the girl swinging on a swing on the opposite side of the park, we see him running towards her from his point of view, we then see a flashback of the couple playing on the swings together, in the style of an old fashioned camera, then for a split second second we see the girl screaming, then we see form the mans point of view the swing continuing to swing but with nobody on it. We then see the mans face looking confused.
Up to 42 seconds.
Scene Seven
Chorus starts: the man walks away from the park and continues to walk around looking confused and worried, he then sees the girl ahead of him again, she starts to run away from him and he runs after her, he follows her to a busy street.
Until 56 seconds
Scene Eight
The man stands still in the street with people moving past him quickly, we see close ups of his face and he starts going crazy in the street.
Until 1:02
Scene Nine
The man is running again, we see him from many different angles, he thinks he sees the girls again and starts to run after her, she leads him to a train station, and he follows her down onto the platform and the girl runs onto the train, before he gets there the doors close and he’s left looking at the girl in the window, as the train goes past him he sees her face in every window staring at him.
Until 1:16
Scene Ten
He stumbles back from the train and sits down on a bench, as he sits down he has a flashback of a train arriving and the girl getting off the train, they run towards each other but as he gets closer to her the flashback ends and he sees a flashback of himself killing her, this time the happy flashback has gotten shorter and the murder flashback has got longer.
1:30
Scene Eleven
Chorus Starts: We see shots of the man running in different places, the shots change on the change of the lyrics.
Until 1:57
Scene Twelve
The man sees the girl again, he chases her again, she leads him to a fairground, he follows her through the crowd but he loses her, he sees her on the waltzers, then he has another flashback, he sees himself on the waltzers with the girl, they are happy and laughing and joking, the flashback lasts for a shorter time, and is interrupted by a flashback of the murder, this is longer than the happy flashback.
2:20
Scene Thirteen
The man runs out of the fairground, its now dark and he continues to run through the streets, he’s wearing white trainers which in the dark show up very brightly.
2:26
Scene Fourteen
We see a close-up of the mans face he is scared and worried, he’s holding his head and going crazy.
2:29
Scene Fifteen:
The man is still running, he then stops, and sees the girl run past him again, he follows her into a dark empty grave yard, he walks around the graveyard and trips over a grave, when he looks up he sees a pair of feet swinging in front of him, they are the girls shoes, the man pushes himself away from the grave but when he looks up there’s nobody there just a grave with his girlfriends name on it, she died years ago. He then has a flashback of everything he has already seen, really quickly, then him killing her and her falling onto the floor like at the beginning.
Until 3:06
Characters:
Man
Girl
Costumes:
Man- plain T-shirt, jeans, white trainers
Girl, In flashbacks- different outfits, the ghost- white dress, red shoes.
Props:
Broken glass/mirror
Fake Blood
Grave stone
Equipment:
Camera
Video camera
Camera stand/ tripod
Lights
Locations:
Dull Street
Living Room
Park- playground, on swings - Shadbolt Park
Fun Fair - Hook road arena
Cemetery- Ewell village
Train Station- Stoneleigh station
Shots:
Long shots of every location
Close ups of characters faces, objects
Establishing shot of each location
Panning shots of locations
Medium shots of locations and streets
Girl in background/ reflections
Running shots:
Shots of his feet
His pov
Tracking with the running
Close ups of his face
Shots that are off centre
Him running towards the camera
Him running through the shot
Camera at bottom of stairs, he runs up stairs
Two shots pasted together
Arial shots
