For this post me and my collegue Paul started making these posts together.

The plot for our music video is breakup and addiction, from the start me and my partner knew that the song required topics like this in order to be properly conveyed, we took a look at the music video already out and decided to do something similar but more narrative focused, the story follows a guy who goes to the club in order to get wasted and forget his ex girlfriend but ironically by drinking more he starts remembering her more and more, all their fights and the good moments, and then he gets drunk and leaves the club and runs into his ex on the street and starts arguing with her showing that he hasn’t changed at all and that the drinking didn’t help him move on, it just made things worse.

The way the story is structured in the script is that it starts pretty simple, an establishing shot of him walking down a street towards the club which sets the location and the tone, then he meets his friends outside and they go in together and start drinking, and i feel like this part was important since we needed to show that he is trying to distract himself with people around him rather than being alone, the club environment made sense for this since it gives the illusion of fun while actually being quite hollow.

The flashback structure is something me and my partner were really excited about since it allowed us to cut between the present where he is drunk and spiraling and the past where you see him buying flowers and chocolates for his girlfriend, which is a really sharp contrast since in the present he is stumbling around a club and in the past he was doing something genuinely sweet for someone he loved, i feel like that contrast does a lot of the emotional heavy lifting without needing any dialogue to explain it.

The argument scene towards the end of the script is probably the most intense part since we switch back and forward between the present and the past while he is arguing, showing that the same destructive behavior that ended the relationship is still there, he hasn’t grown at all and the drinking just brought it all back to the surface, and the outro where she slaps him and leaves is a match cut from the past into the present which i feel like is a really clean way to end it since it ties both timelines together and makes the point that nothing has really changed for him.