Representation

This is the last clip of our stop animation. The boy character is asking the girl to forgive him however we do not know the outcome, as it is a 'potential breakup'. We wanted to used an enigma code, to make the audience feel more involved, making their own decisions as to whether she forgives him or not.

The clocks are a symbol showing time passing, and the fact that there are many of them shows that she has been waiting for a long time. My bored fed up expression goes well with the lyrics as she is waiting for her boyfriend to call her on her birthday, but he forgets.

The cake smashing on the floor was to show her anger and hurt that her boyfriend forgot her birthday. Its almost a flashback, as if she had thrown the cake, on her birthday, onto the floor in frustration.

This shot is shown when we hear the lyrics 'my armour was cracked'. The petals are pink which has connotations of love and lust, however the fact that she scrunches them up was to symbolise love being crushed, reflecting how she felt.

This is one of my favourite shots. The sun reflecting on the sea looks really effective. The sun has connotations of happiness and the fact that we are dancing in the light reflects that this is how we are feeling. We have moved on from the anger and the hurt.

Although we have many symbolic shots we also wanted to be quite literal with some of our footage. This shot of the balloons flying in the sky is shown on the lyrics 'you know your lost', the balloons are representing the idea of being 'lost'. This goes with Andrew Goodwin's theory that 'there is a relationship between the lyrics and visuals'.

This shot is shown on the lyrics 'this is the potential breakup song'. The washing away of the heart is very symbolic in the sense that the love is gone, it has been 'washed away'. We have had lots of positive feedback about this shot and we are both really pleased with its outcome as it is exactly how we had planned it. 

                                     

This shot of the birds flying up into the sky was symbolic as birds have connotations of freedom however they also have connotations of hope. Therefore this is another enigma code as the audience are unsure of whether they 'breakup' or 'makeup'.

This establishing shot of the funfair was followed by another series of images showing us having fun in the arcades etc. It was again to show us having fun 'your not living till your living, living with me. It also shows us being strong and living life rather than moping around being sad about the 'potential breakup'.

This is shown on the lyrics 'minus you I'm better off'. This is the only time we see who one of the boys are, however they are merely a picture, she is still the one in control scribbling over his picture. It also added a bit of humour to our music video, and a playful youthful feel to it.

Here is another shot of us having fun, the change in location and weather shows the passing of time and the moving on of the relationship.

This shot shows the word love written out in twigs being destroyed by a snow ball. It is symbolic in the sense that the love in the relationship has too been destroyed.

This is an extreme close up shot  shown on the lyrics 'you know I know it be a lie'. Here i am wearing red lipstick, red has connotations of anger however it also has connotations of love and lust. A mouth also has fairly sexual connotations, so we used this to show that although she is angry she does still love him.

Here I am wearing headphone and am singing into a microphone. We felt it was important to include studio equipment in order to use codes and conventions of our genre.

Here is just another shot of us having fun. We wanted us as artists to be shown as down to earth typical teenage girls, rather than an unreachable 'star image'.

I really liked this shot with the banisters in front, its symbolic in the sense that she feels trapped and sad, being in a relationship where her boyfriend forgets her birthday.

This image is shown towards the end of the song where the lyrics become 'this is the potential makeup song', which is why she is smiling. Its another enigma code as the audience are unsure if she has forgiven him or not.

This was a really beautiful long shot taken towards the end of our day at Southend. The ships in the distance are stuck as the tide has gone out. It is symbolic as it reflects the fact that the girls are stuck and unsure whether or not to forgive their boyfriends. Another enigma code, as we do not tell the audience whether they end up staying in the relationship or whether they do breakup.

This is the final shot seen in our music video. The camera slowly zooms into the sunset and the washed out tide. The fact that it's nearly the end of the day, the sun is setting and the tide is gone, could represent the end of the relationship, its been washed away and its time for a fresh start. However someone else could interpret it as them staying together, as the sunset and the beach has connotations of love and romance.