Timeline

The pictures above show a rough storyboard as to what I hope to achieve in terms of my music video.

The first picture shows a close up of our star and her crying. An extreme close up is next and shows the tear drop falling onto a notebook which has the word "Numb" on it, causing the ink to then smudge and run on the page. We are introduced to the artist through the following shot where we see a mid shot of her singing in the studio. This would be intercut with the narrative; flashbacks of the star and her boyfriend would be seen where they are together and then would lead to us seen him cheat on her.
When thinking about the shoot, I felt that filming the cheating scenes would prove to be difficult and not as easy to accomplish as I'd thought, so felt a more effective way of portraying the concept of cheating would be to show the boyfriend's clothes draped on the stairs along with the "other" woman's clothing. The reaction of this by the artist would be to see her drop a picture of the two of them and have the glass smash. This would symbolise the end of their relationship and mimic the lyrics of the song.

The scene with the clothing on the stairs is a popular one which is seen in many movies and films which links in with intertextuality.