LOCATION:
The locations
featured are; Brixton, Knightsbridge, and Oxford Circus. However, we decided to
also film in spaces such as, St. Duncan’s in the East,
Greenwich Foot Tunnel. We wanted to subvert typical
conventions of the R&B genre by also surrounding the protagonist with
nature, as the conventions usually show the protagonist to be in a sexual
environment. Having the nature scenes are to exhibit Levi-Strauss’s ‘binary
opposites’ theory, as the protagonist’s mannerism is quite too sexual and
dominant, and we wanted to see her in nature, because traditionally women were
supposed to be sensitive like flowers, but she subverts this and acts
completely different.
Character Profile:
The
main character, played by Christina, has somewhat a mixed signal personality.
At the beginning, she says “You say you got a girl. But how you want me? How
you want me when you’ve got a girl?” This lyric shows that she is quite civil
and doesn’t agree with affairs and ruining relationships. However, it is quite
evident that she has changed her mind- “Gettin' all in your love,
Fallin' all
over love”.
At this point she’s in love with him, but he’s not showing her the same
affection. After this, she reveals signs of envy because she’s jealous of how
much time her love interest is spending with his own girl, “Like is
you comin' home?
Is you
out with her?”. The protagonist becomes greedy and completely
opposes her feelings before about the private engagement and starts to plead
for more days with the man she’s having an affair with- “I gotta say
I'm in the mood for a little bit more of that. I mean I'm saying what kind of deal, just
two days?
I need
me at least 'bout four of them”. To conclude, the character profile
detailing the protagonist is quite varied as she goes through many stages
within the song that it’s harder to depict her actual personality. Looking
back, I’ve come to release that it’s almost as if she’s going through the five
stages of grief.
Denial-
She loves a man that doesn’t love her back. Anger- She becomes angry when she
only gets her man on the weekends, bargaining- she starts begging for more
days, depression- when she becomes paranoid whether he’s out or if he’s with
his girl. The last
stage is acceptance-
this is heard when she speaks directly to the other woman and says “You're like
9 to 5, I'm the weekend.
Then just
send him my way.
Think I got
it covered for the weekend”.
The symbolization of grief in this situation is actually the loss of the man,
who has lost interest in the protagonist and that’s why he spends more time
with his own girlfriend.
To Camera, Story, or Mix:
Our
music video has a mixture of to camera and story elements. To further
our understanding of Andrew Goodwin’s theory of music videos being of
‘Illustrative, Amplifying, Contradicting’, we chose to use Illustrative because
the lyrics of the song, follows a women sharing her man with another, which
would be clearly shown
in
our production video. Furthermore, the protagonist’s character development is
also shown when she looks directly at the camera to reveal that she was once fierce
and dominant but at the end she became more accepting of the situation she was
in even though she hated it, so in her own way she became submissive.
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