Expanding the narrative

We decided, upon closer inspection of the narrative, that it is not sufficient to fill a song of around four minutes since it would comprise mostly of shots of the artist painting and the girl walking through the forest. Although we have established the basic narrative structure of the boy longing for his lost love of the girl, we decided that we need something more to tie the entire narrative together. It may be unclear to an audience what the narrative is, as the expressions on the artist's face and the images of the girl may not be enough to tell the story and convey the emotion of the artist effectively to the audience. Therefore, we have thought of adding a memory sequence that shows the artist and the girl together, as well as how they break up. The break up scenes will make for a more powerful piece because they will provide a larger variety of emotion, making the piece more interesting as opposed to merely showing the artist's sadness throughout. They will also help the audience to understand the story of the piece more clearly, and give a reason for the artist to become frustrated at the crescendo of the song and destroy his surroundings. As a result, we will have the shots of the girl as a fantasy sequence, with the artist thinking of the girl he loves and the break up shots of him remembering her. To distinguish a difference between both sections of the narrative, as well as to create variation between shots, we thought about increasing the saturation of the fantasy images so that the colours will be more vivid and bolder, enhancing the unrealistic feeling of them as the artist imagines the girl in an obscure yet beautiful setting as she walks through the forest. Therefore, we would decrease the saturation of the memory shots instead to show how they are in the past, and to distinguish the difference between the past, the present and the artist's imagination.