Tweak week: Improving my music video

In order to improve my video I have filmed a new sequence to be added into it. This new sequence will be a flashback which will hopefully make the narrative of my video somewhat clearer to the audience. This should hopefully make the link between the male and female characters in the music video more obvious as the audience can see them on screen together in images of their past. The flash back will show them happy together which contradicts the lyrics of the song, but helps to tell the story that these two people are now alone.  In the flashback different costumes are worn by the actors in the video which are brighter that the main black theme seen in the rest of the video. this is to contrast the mood in the video, with the black reflecting a gloomier mood and loneliness, whereas the clothes in the flash back reflect happier times between the two characters. I also chose to use steadier camera shots in comparison to handheld shots used outside of the flashback, which I have used to imply the stability between the two people in the past and the instability in the present. Another contrast between the two is the use of the weather and lighting. In the flashback we can see the sun shining in some shots whereas in the present shots the shines are cloudy and there is fog in the surrounding environment, with the sun reflecting happier times for the two characters and the fog and clouds reflecting a now darker present. In the background during some of the shots in the flashback other people can be seen in the background whereas in shots of the present I made sure to include no other people in the video. This was to add emphasis that they were now completely alone in the world with nobody else there for them.