Imagery

For my video, I have chosen to create strong images that represent loneliness without appearing dismal. I wish to create a piece that has a really strong sense of humor, however keeping the strong perception of heart ache and abandonment. Examples of these images could be:

• The lipstick of a past lover left on a mug
• Footprints in the snow, but at the end of the footprints only one person is standing there.
• Following the theme of snow use, two snow angels but with only one person left there. Looking at the remanence of their past relationship.
• Shots that exaggerate the loneliness: sitting a chair in the middle of a road, symbolising the break in a journey.
• Two balloons with happy faces drawn on, then one bursts, causing the balloon to rotate showing a sad face of the opposing side, representing the burst out of happiness (a similar affect could be used with smiley faces drawn on a set of thumbs, keeping with the idea that a set has been broken)
• Two gloves on a surface, one is later taken away showing one glove (this Idea is later repeated with a pair of socks, again the repetition of a broken set )
• A person laying clothes out on a sofa, trying to create the illusion of another person sitting with them.
• A bottle of whiskey that has been poured into two cups, however one cup never gets consumed.
• A young lady sitting alone on a chair, with a gradual (but with jolty affect) zoom into her upset face
• Somebody spraying themselves in the perfume of the former partner, to comfort them, and remind them of a past relationship/memory
• The use you lyrics being held up to the camera in the style of Bob Dylan's video, because I feel that it will break the video up, rather then a rather monotonous feeling of image after image.
• The use of a heart being torn in two, this can also be used with a picture of the couple being torn. This is a more obvious image of break up.
• The final image should be strong, leaving a memorable mental picture, much like that of The Maccabees "First Love" video, where the last shot if of a women roll away from a drawn outline of her body, representing someone to love. In my video I wish to use the image of the torn picture on the floor, as the women walks into the distance.