We are the Ocean - Confessions Lyrics

 I'm writing these confessions to you
As in all songs the lyrics are polysemic because the word confessions could include anything. We've decided that we will not therefore show the confessions. We have also decided that the protaganist will be female to help us appeal to the male gaze and signify innocence and vulnerability of the character as a feminist denotation of this. A post feminist denotation would be that the protaganist in the video is running away by choice and showing her feminine freedom. We realise that it is unconventional to have a male singing voice displaying a female protaganist but we wanted to signify these traits. 


Therefore we initially decide that the shot will show an extreme close up shot of the female protaganist writing this would then pan up to an extreme close up of the protaganist with a tear in her eye. This would signify intense emotion and get the audience to sympathise with the protaganist. 


She would be wearing a white dress both to appeal to the male gaze and to signify her innocence as from I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance. However unlike this video the actor we have chosen has short brown hair this could signify as an opositional reading that she is a lesbian or the preffered reading that the character is a rebeliouse. To lead the audience away from the opositional reading into the preffered reading we will signify previouse relationships by having her reaching out to boys she thinks she sees in the street. The dress could signify a wedding. Therefore to anchor the preffered reading and to both stick to the codes and conventions and appeal to the male gaze we will use a serial aspect to the video by not making up the hair of the protaganist and placing her in a street. Essentially we are using the types of feminist crtiique costumes an artist like Lady Ga Ga would although perhaps not as extreme. We want to signify the protaganist is both displaying herself to get the song to sell but also a free untouchable lady.


I'm writing these confessions to you 
For this shot we intend to have the protaganist looking up at the mirror as a question of her identity such as in the Eminem video not affraid. She would post the note on the mirror and sing to the mirror holding her hand up against the mirror and touching it. 


All of the time the lighting would be very low key such as in the Leona Lewis video Light Up where the frame fades to black at the edges.
  
Oh wont you hold my hand, and take me to the other side
Once again there is a great deal of polysemy as to the meaning of the lyric "the other side" it could mean the other side of death, the other side of life or even the other side of the street. We want to leave it polysemic although the side of death seems to be signified.

We will therefore show the protaganist trying to hold the hand of a boy. The boy could be a band member. As she goes to hold there hand they will dissapeare. This will be done using Final Cut  

Well I want to see you, I want to see with my own eyes
Similarly to the scene where she is naked in the Lady Ga Ga video and the Flash dance video we will show a high angle shot of the protaganist colapsing to the floor and holding her eyes in tears on the floor.

I'm writing these confessions to you
Similarly to most rock music videos we would therefore here show the performance side of the video. To signify the band is non diagetic to the narrative we would use a flash cut. The shot  would be a two shot showing the lead singer in a low angle shot with the guitarist. This would track side ways around the lead singer.

Oh wont you hold my hand, and take me to the other side
We see a a low angle shot of the lead guitarist then a close up shot of him holding the guitar to get the mise en scene to match the lyric.

Well I want to see you, I want to see with my own eyes
We see a close up shot of the lead singer then an extreme close of of his eyes. The shot fades to black to signify a break away from the performance.

I'm writing these confessions to you
Like in the short film Runaway by Kanye West we will here see an extreme long shot which tracks backwards as the protaganist runs towards her. The protaganist will have bags with her to signify she is moving away perminantly.

I'm writing these confessions to youWe will then see a point of view short of him running across vast open spaces.

So wont you hold my hand, and take me to the other sideLike in the Pieces video by Sum 41 we will here see images from the protaganists past. She will reach out to touch them and they will fade away.


Well I want to you, yeah I want to see with my own..Here she will meet a river and there will be a flash cut to signify the change in diagesis.
Eyes

(Guitar solo)There will be a low angle shot signifying the band are powerfull of the lead guitarist playing the guitar. This will be intercut with a tracking medium long shot and an extreme close up of him on his guitar.
I'm writing these confessions to youHere we will see a long tracking shot of him running down a street when all of a sudden he will meet a wall.

I'm writing these confessions to youLike in the Brokeback Mountain scene here we will see her punching the wall and breaking down in a long shot from the side.
So wont you take me hand and take me to the other sideAn over the shoulder shot him looking at the other side of train tracks

Well I want to see you, I want to see with my own..
Eyes
Eyes
I want to see with my own eyes
Oh OhI want to see with my own eyes
He will sit on a wall a train will go by and he will dissapear after the train has left