Shot one: The music Video opens in black and White with the generic opening shot to a silent film (A telescopic shot) The miss-en-scene shows a girl sitting at a table looking at a Box.
This relates to Alice in Wonderland, Pandoras Box and the earliest footage for a colour film.
Shot two: We see the girl open the box from a high angle shot, this confirms her original status within the video, as she opens the box colour returns to the shot, she removes several animal toys and begins to play with them. This shot ends with the colour increasing until the screen is white and nothing can be seen.
Shot three: Dissolve back into a point of view shot from the girl, The girl is now in a large field and she is looking up at a large Human Bunny (This relates to the toys she was playing with before). She gets up and runs from the Bunny.
Shot four: Cut between tracking shots of the girl running through the fields and shots of the animal masked men appearing from the earth to follow her. (This relates to the evil that exists within Pandoras Box and that once the Box is opened there is no true escape)
Shot five: The girl, now dressed differently to show her changing status is shot at a low angle as she starts to run through a forest. The animals still follow her in the distance and are shown to have more control over their limbs as each shot passes.
Shot six: The forest comes out onto a bridge and the girls costume has once again changed, she is now walking into the city which shows her changing environment and the idea that the true evil that escaped from the Box was social control.
Shot seven: the girl is shot from low angle shots with large tower blocks and industrial buildings behind her, this shows that she is trying to over power the new world. The creatures are shot from high angles now to show their power weakening outside the forests. The city is shown to be a second evil to escape the Box and the girl is torn between two worlds.
Shot eight: The Masked men are slowly approaching the table where the girl is located sleeping, cut between the girl running back across the bridge and the animals approaching the girl.
Shot nine: The girl tries to undo what she has done by opening the Box and attempts to awaken from her sleep by returning to the field. We start once again to see colour fade from the shots
Shot ten: The girl runs back through the forest and into the field, the shots are becoming dimmer and dimmer as she does so. We dissolve between the girl running and the masked creatures lowering a mask onto the sleeping girls face.
Shot eleven: The girl is shot standing in a field wearing a mask, the shot slowly turns to colour as the bunny from the first shot walks over to her. The two grasp hands and the bunny leads the Masked girl forwards.
Shot twelve: the mood has lifted and the shot pans out from the image of the bunny and the girl lying happily together in the field. The shot fades out and when it fades in we see the doll of a small girl being lowered inside the box, the lid of the box is then closed and a Bunny mask is slowly lowered on top of the lid. The shot dissolves into black and the video ends.
Your music video should be interesting should your plan succeed. The one point about Pandora's Box is that once opened it may be hard to close, I'd suggest you shoot 2 endings - anyway we can discuss this in class, I like the idea of a sleeping girl which explicitly references Alice's adventures.
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