Ending plans

Ending plans:

Because my narrative throughout the music video goes from reality to day dream, I decided to end the video with a slightly ambiguous mix of the reality and day dream.
In the beginning of the video, Dan is seen boarding a train where he first sees the girl, Paige, and begins his day dream of them being together. I thought, to end, Dan should be seen exiting the train alone, so that the audience can identify this as the first location of the music video, the end of Dan's day dream about Paige. From here, I decided to picture Dan walking alone, to further help the audience identify that them being together was just a dream and this is the reality. Dan would then cross a bridge (I chose this location as it is scenic and is another metaphor of the journey, crossing bridges that suits the genre and would attract the artistic side of the audience) passing Paige who seemingly doesn't recognise him. The cut will then dissolve into Paige turning round as she passes Dan, showing that she does recognise him, and again this will dissolve into Dan turning round to look at her. This will happen as the final words "Oh my beautiful girl" play in the song.

This ending has an air of sadness to it, as almost all the video is of them being a couple, being in love and the happiness that brings them. This ending in some ways contradicts this, because the reality hits the audience that it may not have even happened, or maybe that the couple have had a fight and as a result are acting as though they barely know each other.

The ending could, however, be considered hopeful. The narrative tells us that Dan and Paige do not actually know each other, but that Dan wished they did. As they walk past each other in the end, the image of Paige turning and stopping at the sight of Dan gives the audience a spark of hope that they might begin the relationship they'd just witnessed and make Dan's day dream a reality.

Sam Riley as Ian Curtis:

This is a short clip from Control (2007 film) by Anton Corbijn. I will use this idea of the male character walking towards the camera to achieve the same sense of character's emotion and situation. Although in this clip, Ian Curtis is given the sense of attitude, rebellion and lack of care by the way he walks, his costume, the music, and his smoking, the continuous shot, with Ian following in the camera's tracks, is successful at reinforcing these connotations. I could use this idea with my video ending, except connoting the sense of loneliness and sadness, emotions that would be appreciated by the audience and suits the genre. 

Final scene from The Third Man (1949) by Carol Reed 

This ending, mainly the final shot, depicts very strongly the emotions felt by Anna simply by the length of the shot and her actions. The audience partly expects Anna to walk towards Holly, as he is waiting for her to the left of the shot, but she instead walks straight past him. This shot and her silence, more than anything, shows her feelings about Holly.
I will use this idea to capture the twist in my music video's ending. As Paige walks across the bridge, I'll use this idea to capture the same devastation the audience feels as the Anna walks past Holly and out of his life in this clip. I will, however, lift the spirits of the audience, by having Paige turn round and look at Dan which will be unexpected by the audience, like in The Third Man.