Planning Stages 2

We had established our performance shoot and successfully transferred our ideas onto a storyboard by now, and we had completely storyboarded the performance shots. I will post a dedicated storyboard post to showcase both the performance and narrative storyboards side-by-side, and how they will lead into an animatic.
Before then, we obviously have to assemble the narrative and the structure of it. We have discussed in previous posts the nature of our narrative, and the themes it will follow: now it is time to actually set down in writing the plotline for the narrative section of the video.

The story would begin with a scene involving a dishevelled, grimy young male character (between 16-20 years old), angrily storming out of his house, whilst having abuse shouted at him by his clearly inebriated mother/father. The impression given to the audience will be that his homelife is clearly in disarray, and he is looking to escape. He runs away from his house before stopping several streets away. He slumps up against the wall of an alleyway, and scrambles in his jacket pocket for a photo. It is mildly crumpled, and it is a photo of a beautiful, elegant female character. On the back of the photo are scribbled the words 'we never can truly know who we are' (a line of lyrics from the song itself). The photo appears to give him renewed energy, as from being slumped up against the wall apparantly exhausted, he presses the photo to his lips and runs on again. He runs all the way to the female character's house, who is revealed to be living relatively close by, and he calls for her from the front of the house. She hears his call from upstairs, runs downstairs and swings open the front door, before jumping into his arms. They embrace and share a kiss, which gives the impression that they are presumably lovers. They then both run together away from her house to a deserted area, which is assumed to be an area that a) both of them know well and b) is perhaps special to them. The female character is seen to be comforting the male character, before the male character announces his intention to commit suicide, having reached the end of his tether with his rotten home situation and feeling like the only true escape possible is suicide, but with the female character (his love) alongside him. He therefore proposes to the female character that they enter into a suicide pact. She agrees to it, and they run on, eventually leading to an abandoned industrial building. They climb to the roof of the building, and approach the edge. They pause, almost subconciously look at each other, and share an emotional embrace and kiss, before taking each other's hand and running towards the edge. The camera doesn't actually show them jump off the edge, instead just cutting away as they jump. This leaves more to the viewer's imagination.
From here, we are still deliberating on the ending. At the moment, it is this: the female character is shown walking with another, much more well-groomed and higher class male, near the industrial building, and she sees the body of the first male character, and is visibily shocked - end of video. Therefore implying that the female character is a fantasy to the main male character, this almost angelical, semi-fictional figment of his imagination. This may well change, however.

More to come...