Storyboard.

To construct our video and the action that would happen within it, we drew and discussed a storyboard of ideas from our mindmap of ideas for the video.

We chose to fade in from a blackout to the first scene, as this is what is done in the original video, and we wanted to reference this in our own work. We also used the medium close up shot of her to start, and point of view shot of her looking at her phone, as she also uses this idea in her video. We wanted it to be clear to the audience that we were using intertextual referencing from the original video in our own to give iconic value and recognition of this to the audience.

For this scene, we chose a medium shot as it captured the basic features of her face and body, as there was no in depth emotion at this point, and also enabled her arms to be shown as she grabs her phone. We then used a point of view shot to show what she was looking at, which was her phone, as she sends a text message.

For this scene, we chose a medium shot of her putting her phone down to show action all from a distance to save us having point of view and close up shots, as this would be time consuming within the video. We then stayed within this shot as she picked up a glass of wine on her drawers beside her, the shot also being successful as the drawer can be kept in view. She then downs the wine, still in medium shot, before putting it down and picking her phone back up as the 'text message' tone goes off.
The next scene shows a point of view for continuity after she picks up her phone to show what she is looking at , and revealing the text she has received to the audience.

For these scenes, we again focus from a medium shot of the girl putting her phone back upon her drawers. After this point, the instrumental for the start of the song starts. For this point, we went in from a medium shot to show the girls' basic body language and facial expression, as she is looking depressed and sad since her breakup with her boyfriend, and then slowly moved out backwards tracking as the music plays, to reveal the mess she is surrounded by on her bed, again to illustrate the physical state she, and her room are in since her breakup.

This scene lasts for the remaining 20 seconds of the instrumental. We timed this as there is much action going on within it, but we wanted it to fit well before the lyrics began. We decided as there is lots of action, to shoot from a wide shot to capture everything together. This is whilst the female is doing various jobs, such as folding a pair of jeans, tidying tissues into a bin from on top of her bed, and walking towards the mirror, as the camera pans towards a side view of this.

The last scene lasts for the 7 seconds, and is the start of the lyrics in the song. For this short scene, there is a shot from behind the female looking into the mirror, also showing her reflection in the camera as she wipes off old smudged makeup, suggesting she has been crying from the breakup, and that she has become in a lazy passive state since the split.