Planning: Narrative

After looking at the lyrics of 'Blind Faith', the strongest theme that was apparent to me was drug abuse. I have been considering a narrative for a few days now, making spider diagrams to explore the potential of an interesting video, which I believe I have discovered.

I have decided to not use a hybrid genre for my video, and will therefore only be using narrative. However, the singer will also be the protagonist.

The video will be torn between two narratives, that of reality and the singer's "wonderland".

The reality is of the singer when he is not under the influence of drugs and has low saturation to represent his low mood and quality of life. It follows his struggle with his addiction, sitting in Church confessing to God and being tempted to take more drugs by 'Temptation'. There will be shots of him smoking/'breathing smoke' as a reference to his heavy drug use and a lot of foliage and trees to signify the temptation involved in the Garden of Eden.

When he has taken drugs, he is transported into a 'Wonderland', inspired and intertextually referencing 'Alice in Wonderland', where the colours will be highly saturated in order to show the contrast of moods to his reality.

'Temptation' will be personified and almost take the role similar to the Cheshire Cat's in 'Alice in Wonderland' as she is constantly leading the singer further into wonderland. The breathing of smoke seen in reality will be an intertextual reference to the caterpillar in 'Alice in Wonderland' who blows rings of smoke etc. At the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, the dormouse tells a story of three sisters who lived in a well made of treacle. If I can somehow incorporate this into my video it will be useful as the well can represent hell, while treacle is the sweetness of the drug. I am considering having anyone I choose to involve (except the singer) in 'reality' to wear a mask to show how he has become disorientated and isolated with the world. If I wanted, I could also use this in 'wonderland' to show that his addiction is insatiable.

I think my idea for my video is good as it is very different to the official video, which is based upon raves. Although this narrative will require a lot of work, I think that if I put the work into it I could produce a really good final piece.