Music Video Synopsis

Song-Falling in Reverse-Game Over

For my music video I want to tell the story of how the primary band member in Buried In Boston is starved for motivation and how he overcomes this through video games and eventually decides on the reinvention of the band by the end of the music video, throwing away the thing that formerly defined the band-the masks. I want to start with an establishing shot of the two band members sat in the garage, starved for innovation and attempting to write a song but failing. Then after the pair become overtly frustrated Mic leaves, leaving my character to continue trying to find inspiration. This will lead to him sluggishly sitting down on the couch and playing a new video game, which will be the second diegesis of the video. In the video game he will create a persona of himself wearing all dark clothing to symbolise his current mood, and his saddened state. This will be done through a character creation screen. Through to the first chorus he will play the game and become overtly frustrated at his slow progression and the unfortunate events that happen in game. This will lead to him leaving, and attending a therapy session of which the therapist will advise him to stop playing video games. He will ignore this advice and then proceed to return home and play video games. The following chorus and bridge will be a montage sequence of the band member on the couch playing the game, constantly changing position, and his character gaining levels and unlocking more in the character creation. Inspired by in game events he will gain ideas about what he could write about and begin to write the lyrics to the song Game Over itself, while he changes his character into progressively brighter and brighter clothing to symbolise him getting out of his creative rut and finally finding the inspiration to write. The entry of a 'cheat code' will allow him to unlock the masks in the character creation screen, prompting him to add one of the masks to his character and 'fast travel' to a location in which the character discards the masks, finally giving him the title of 'Game Over' to add to the top of his paper as his character stands victorious over the masks, symbolising the completed reinvention of the band and the returned spark of inspiration. My band member will then invite Mic back and present him with the song, to which they will both then begin to leave. My band member will then stop in his tracks and go back to the room, turning off the console that the game is being played on to symbolise the complete ending of the creative dry spell.

Obviously aspects of this narrative will be inserted into my ancillery texts.