Group: Treatment

Treatment –

The Hawk House song we have chosen has a basic structure of verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus. Each verse of the song describes the life of a new character. We will produce and structure our music video in this form as well. The first verse is about a young teenage girl called Rachel who has a rough upbringing, gets into drugs and is abuse by her boyfriend. In the music video will show snippets of Rachel daily routines of her doing drugs in toilet and coming home with fresh bruises from her boyfriend. This will take place in the two locations Rachel’s room and the toilet cubical. The second verse describe the life of a new character called Marcius, who is a father r of two young kids. We discover Marcus is having money problems and is suffering from depression because his wife has filed for divorce. Marcus’ solution to this problem is too rob a bank and try to gain a quick bit of money. Marcus is unsuccessful in robbery and is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Similarly to first story, we will show snippets of Marcus struggling with his different problems, for example showing shots of Marcus getting loads of bills or a shot of the bail lifts storming the door. We will also give the impression that Marcus does rob a bank and getting caught by the police. The last verse describes the life of a young teenage boy, who is unnamed. He is not performing well at school and is getting into trouble, wasting his days, smoking weed in his room. The cause of the young boy behaviour is due to the fact that his father is not around and his mum is addicted to her prescription medication, meaning he has no restrictions from his parents, allowing him to live his life off-rails. We will show shots of both the boy, getting bad grades, having arguments with his mum, walking out the house and roaming the streets at night with his dog, and the mother, taking extensive amounts of her medication and neglecting her son.

We will present each story individually and have our star, as a narrator, who will be present in all the shots throughout. The star will be lip-syncing the words of the song as he presents each character. He will be present in the scene however the star will never interact with the character of the story, it will be as If he wasn’t there. For the chorus, which stays the same throughout, we will cut to the stars performing in a different location just so this allows us a good means to link each verse together.

The final shot will be will the money shot, which highlights the twist in the narrative and will make all the individual stories link together. The final shot will be a zoom into a cracked picture frame which has a family photo of all the characters (Rachel, Marcus and the mum and son) siting together. This will indicate to the audience that all the characters are from the same family, Rachel being the sister to both Marcus and the son and the mum being the mother of the three characters. Marcus being the eldest sibling as he already has kids.