The Narrative

After receiving feedback from peers with regards to our 25 word pitch, we realised that the narrative within our pitch wasn't as clear as it could be, thus the purpose of this post is to outline it. The narrative of our video will be expressed mainly through the contemporary dance by a male and female, and our artist.

The lyrics of the song are significantly important, so we broke them down to find the meaning, of what we believe Birdy, the original artist, wrote the song about. The chorus which is repeated throughout gave us a large indication:

Main Chorus:
And pull back this fail,
Turn night into day,
Don't know you know you're standing in the way of the light,
Pour oil on these flames,
Speed up my heart again,
Don't you know you're standing in the way of the light.

Chorus Change Towards the End of The Song:
Just pull back this fail,
Turn night into day,
Don't you know you're standing in the way of the light,
Pour oil on these flames,
Speed up my heart again,
Don't you know you're standing in the way of the light,
So come on come on come on,
We've been living in the shadows too long,
So come on come on come on.


These lyrics suggest to us that the artist is singing about the pain they are experiencing within the relationship, and the person they love is constantly putting obstacles in the way of their relationship, resulting in her misery. This could be down to her fear/paranoia that he has found another girl.

In our video, our artist (Billie-White) sings about this 'girl' she believes is diverting her boyfriends attention away from her, as the female dancer isn't the same person as the girl who plays Billie-White. Through the dance, we then express an atmosphere which would suggest that Billie-Whites boyfriend is cheating on her, when really, throughout the whole video, this female dancer is a hallucination in Billie-White's head, and is in fact not real.