Posting this so I can see the treatment from college
The video begins with the singer sitting down in an empty location, playing an acoustic guitar, singing to the beginning of the song. Camera shots mostly on her face and guitar, and a wide of the whole body. Cut in with shots of a double bed, with the singer on one side, singing the song. During the line ‘And when I sleep’, extreme close up of the singers eye closing, and then opening up. When the singers eye is closed, begin a filter that makes the situation seem more dream like, and cut to a wide of the bed, revealing someone in it. The singer rolls over. Cut back to acoustic performance for a static camera shot of the singers face for the line ‘You’re everywhere’.
Singer begins to wander round house, and sees the same man in a room, as she double-takes, we see that he is no longer there. We see her leaving the house and wondering down the street, and seeing the man talking on his phone/ upon looking again; we see it is a different looking person talking on his phone. During this we intercut with acoustic performance singing the long. At the line ‘Always there’, we are at the acoustic performance and track into her face, and then pull back out to reveal our first band performance, where the singer is standing, and has no guitar, but a band instead. For this first chorus, mostly static camera angles should be used, with slight, sharp tripod based movement on some parts, and camera angles on all performers (Singer, Guitar, Bass, and Drums). A small amount of performance on the chorus should be on the acoustic performance. Close up of the singers face for the first ‘I’m not alone’, and on the second ‘I’m not alone’, QUICK flash cuts of the singer writing/spray painting the line on a wall or sheet of canvas, but because of the flash cut’s we shouldn’t be able to see too clearly what she’s writing.
For the second verse, we see the singer sitting alone at a park, singing the song, and on a shot from behind we see the man, running past, cut back to the singers face, and then back to the runner who is just a normal runner. Singer still singing the song, out of focus is a bench, with two people, both are the same person, as the singer looks over, it is just two people having a conversation. This verse is designed to explore the use of the line ‘You’re everywhere’.
Second chorus, we have band performance again, but the camera is moving on a dolly around the performers, focusing from one to the other, intercut with the singer sitting in the park singing, instead of sitting down at the acoustic performance. At the ‘I’m not alone’ at the end of the end of the second verse, we see her writing it like we did at the end of the first verse, but it is clear what she is doing, and we keep cutting back to this throughout the solo, cut with band members on a stage? playing the music. At the end of the solo we see the singer standing next to the wall/canvas. For the slow bit after the solo, cut back to the acoustic performance, and cut that with singer sitting at park.
For the final chorus, the band is in full swing, with big movements from all performers, and fast dolly panning throughout the performance, and handheld camera shots of the area, with the singer singing in front of the ‘I’m not alone’ wall/canvas. This is intercut with the singer seeing the man at the park, and after seeing again, it’s still him. She chases after him, but he fades away, along with everything around her. We see the singers eyes open, like at the beginning of the song, with her alone in bed, revealing that the song was a dream.
