Task 8:Final Idea

Final Idea

The final idea for our video to "Skeleton Song" by Kate Nash follows the story of a girl ( the singer)and her skeleton.It follows closely to the actual lyrics of the song which helped us form a narrative and includes several shots of the girl singing to the song.

A wide shot of a street is first shown and when the girl walks into shot the camera pans to follow her. A point of view (P.O.V) shows her walking up the drive to her house and into her house. She walks up the stairs, where on the landing, the ladder to the attic are set up. She's decides to climb the ladder, once in the attic she looks around at all the boxes. The camera shows a P.O.V shot staring at the girl suggesting she isn't alone. The girl finds a box that she pulls out to open. The camera is placed in the box and shows a P.O.V (low angle) as the girl reaches in to pull something out of the box. Then the lyrics start.

An extreme close up shows the girls lips and then a skeletons mouth. It then shows them on a wall (as though the skeleton toy is her friend) where the skeleton falls off and she places a plaster on him showing she cares for his well being. More shots of the skeleton and the girl relaxing on some grass are shown to the audience followed by a change of scene where the girl is crying on her bed ripping up photos of her ex boyfriend and the skeleton comforts her. The singer is shown in a white room where a close up shows her singing the last line before the chorus.

During the chorus, a trick or treating scene is shown. The girl and the skeleton walk up to a house but instead of staying to get sweets, the skeleton runs away and hides leaving the girl in an awkward position where she attempts to run but the owner of the house calls out to her angrily. A quick cut to the singer in the white room is shown as she sings but this time she is holding the box that the skeleton was originally in.

For the next short verse, the skeleton and the girl are dancing in the white room while she sings which then cuts to them in her room trying on clothes which the girl finds amusing as he is a skeleton who has no need for clothes.During a music break, the girl is back in the white room but a close up of her playing the piano (showing off her musical talent). Next the camera shows the girl spinning round in a circle where the camera is the P.O.V of the skeleton and then this flips so the skeleton is shown and the camera is the girl. The next scene shows them at a birthday party and the skeleton blows a party streamer suggesting that he is involved in her life and has been with her for years. 

For the next chorus the main focus is on the singer performing. She is seen singing and writing the lyrics on her bed with the camera at a low angle looking up at her. Shots of her and the skeleton singing and dancing in the white room are shown but this time pictures of them are on the wall and the camera cuts to several of them to show the audience. But then it cuts to the girl holding the box previously and climb up the ladder to the attic implying that she was putting the skeleton back into the attic although this raises questions as to why she is doing this when they seem to be enjoying each others company.

The music dramatically changes and becomes much more slower and darker. Stop motion with the camera at a high angle, shows the girl in bed, rolling around as though she is having a bad dream. She then gets up,finds a hammer and walks to where the skeleton is (who is turned in the opposite direction to her) where she then proceeds to rise the hammer and it is implied she smashes the skeleton with it. The singer is then shown in a darkened room with an unknown light source distorting the shadows on her face making her look almost evil. 

During the music break, the girl is back in the the white room but is tearing down the photos and going crazy. Then when everything slows back down, the girl is sitting on the floor surrounded by the crumpled photos crying while she sings. She grabs an almost intact photo and holds it up. An over the shoulder shows that it is of a boy and then as she lowers the picture, the focus shifts to the skeleton that is suddenly against the wall. She stands up and picks him up then walks off. 

The next scene is similar to the trick or treating scene but the skeleton is replaced with a person in a skeleton costume. After the girl gets in trouble for ringing the bell and walking off, a close up of the person in the costume shows him taking off the mask, revealing that he's the boy in the photo form earlier. Several shots shown previously where the skeleton was featured and now replaced with the boy, suggesting that the singer wasn't talking about a skeleton but this boy. A final close up of the girl shows her singing the last line but then during the outro, the doorbell is heard and a P.O.V shows the girl walking towards the door. When she opens it the boy from the photo is there smiling, holding a skeleton costume and a trick or treat bag.