By Jess Smith, Anna Mather, Vicky Sloan

Our Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xca4Nz
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The song we are going to do is Out On My
Own by Gabrielle Aplin.

Basic Plot
 The narrative is following a teenage girl
who has agoraphobia. Throughout the
video she is preparing to leave home
and go out into the world. She
daydreams about how great the outside
world is throughout the song however at
the end she becomes afraid again and
doesn’t go ‘out on her own’.

Lyrics – Verse 1
I think I've outgrown my home
I'm kind of feeling lost wherever I go
And I could be staring it right in the face
and I wouldn't know
I think I've outgrown my home
1. Open with performance of the artist.
2. Cut to narrative as girl sitting at a table is
writing a letter about wanting to leave
home. The table has three photos
scattered on the table (each of a place the
girl wishes to visit e.g. beach, town, forest).
3. Cuts between the narrative and the
performance.

Lyrics – Verse 2
I have a song in my heart
And just like life it has a middle, an end,
and a start
And who knows if I'm on the path if I'm
walking in the dark?
I have a song in my heart
I'm happy just to float
Wherever this river flows
1. Girl looks at the photograph of the forest.
eye-line match, over-the-shoulder shot.
2. Camera zooms into the photo and pans out
at the real location.
3. Scenic forest shots (establishing shots,
low/high angles). Girl generally looking
amazed to be at this extravagant location. Girl
is wearing white to highlight the innocents of
the girl.

Lyrics – Verse 3
All of the faces I have seen,
Are lacking kindness and familiarity
And all of the eyes I have known have gone
cold and turned to stone
All of the faces I have known
1. Girl looks at photograph of a town centre.
Camera zooms into photo and pans out at the
real location. establishing shots, POV shots.
2. Girl walking around town looking daunted by
the busy location. Low-POV shots
3. Girl dressed all in white and surrounding
people in dark clothing to allow her to stand out
in the crowd (binary opposites).

Lyrics – Verse 4
Its not the end
No its just the change
My worlds gone cold
And my life's turned grey
I need some shelter through my
darkest days
I know Ill be back some day
1. Girl looks at photograph of a beach.
Camera zooms into photo and pans out at
the real location.
2. Girl looks amazed at the open space
and freedom. Scenic shots of the beach.
Establishing shots, ariel shots, eye-line-
match.

Lyrics - Chorus
I'm just finding my feet, pounding the
street, hoping that someday it will
come
And I've got to leave, write my own
tragedies
Keep my old bridges there to burn
Leave all doors open, I don't know if Ill
return
I'm out on my own
Heading out on my own
1. Performance based with cuts back to
the girl in her bedroom preparing to leave.

Costumes
The narrative girl will have two contrasting
outfits, one for inside (dark, warm clothes)
and one for outside (a white dress). This
establishes a greater contrast between what’s
real and what isn’t. We chose the white dress
to represent innocence and purity. Also the
darker clothing is representative of Levi
Strauss’ theory of binary opposites.

Possible Locations

Roles Within the Group
 Blog - Jess & Anna
 Costumes, props, hair & makeup –Anna
 Filming – Vicky & Anna
 Directing - Jess
 Editing –Anna
 Photography - Vicky
 Photoshop – Jess & Vicky
 Scheduling - Jess
 Storyboarding - Anna
 InDesign – Jess

Other Information
 Casting – 2 teenage girls needed. 1 for
performance and 1 for narrative.
 Times of filming – gradually the video
will get later on in the day, so the earlier
in the song, the earlier in the day it is.
So the forest scene will be in the
morning but at the end it will be night.
 Props – a guitar, a letter and pen.

THE END
THANKYOU FOR WATCHING! 