As we can see throughout the video, the tone of colour rapidly changes when different characters are introduced. We wanted the color to represent the emotion of each one of the characters and each of their movements reflects that.
In the beginning of the music video we see the girlfriend angry at the boyfriend, the audience don't know why she is angry however we can see from the grayscale that she is upset. We were going to have the tone as the colour red to represent her anger however when thinking more about it, having the colour as Grey shows that she is more upset than she is angry. She hides her emotions by using physical force on the boyfriend which makes her even more upset as he leaves the room. An example of this can be seen below:
This shot is supposed to represent the view from the boyfriend. By blurring around Francesca we can see that all the boyfriend is focused on is his girlfriend. This can also represent the love they once had which again reflects societies especially the political ideology 'New Right' overall view on young relationships whereby young couples are immature and cannot look after themselves.
We wanted to represent the boyfriend in the same light however we lowered the camera to show that even though the boyfriend is larger than the girlfriend he is still in the wrong and so it is a contrast to what society views on couples whereby it is mostly male dominated and seeing the male actually getting hit by the women - many feminists would believe that this is probably an exaggeration to what society is like however we wanted our audience to watch the video and to take all aspects of the video but not at face value. We can see the example below:
The next scene we see is the life of the tramp. This is where we implemented the theory the most. The first shots of the tramp we see the colour tone change from black and white to a dark shade of colour. This was to show that even though when the tramp gets a sense of happiness, he is still very depressed and sad. We showed him gaining happiness by changing the shots to colour when he drinks some alcohol or he gets feels someone might give him money. We alternated the shots by when the cars drove past him. This type of effect is very common however it mostly used to change the scene, we used it to change the colour. We used the disguise of the car covering the tramp to change the shots. An example of this can be seen below:
In the first shot on the left, we see the tramp about to drink some alcohol. The colour is very monochrome but we see there is some colour by the blue of the gates. In the middle shot, we see the car going past the tramp. This acts as a disguise and helps us change the colour of the shot without it looking noticeable. The last shot is the tramp after drinking the alcohol. He again feels depressed as he knows it doesn't make him happy.
The next shot we have is of the group of teenagers in the park teasing the tramp. The colour remains grey scale as it the shots are not only from the point of view of the tramp but are also the view point of the man walking past them at 1:34. Both the tramp and the man see this act as vulgar however the man does not choose to get involved which reflects what happens today that people decide to not get involved and stop these horrid acts such as bullying or fights as they feel they don't want to get hurt. We wanted to show the selfishness of today's society whereby everyone sticks to themselves and are not considerate. An example of this can be found below:
The next scene we have is the meeting of the two girls of whom the boys are very interested in. The contrast we have are the teenagers walking in the park in greyscale and the two girls who are in colour. The ironic thing is that it the teenagers should be in colour as they are happy and the two girls should be in greyscale as they are conforming to the self fulfilling prophecy whereby just because they dress in a certain way, they must feel that they are then in fact 'slags' and are easy. They dress like this to then get the attention from the boys.
We experimented with the colour and the interaction and tried to make both of them linked together. We did this by fading in the shot of the girl being abandoned by the boys of whom she is is a greyscale tone and the boys approaching the girls of which are now in a colour tone. The overall effect this has is very powerful as they are both two contrasts and extremes. The girl is unhappy and so she is left alone and this is not only represented in her colour but also the facial expression with her swearing at the boys and the boys are now in colour because they are happy as they think they are 'getting some action'. This also worked well as the crossover was when the song changed to to talking about the saddest experience they will ever have etc. Please see the example below:
The last scene we have is at the house whereby everyone is socializing however we have Hayley who is being gradually isolated from the rest of the group as she is not getting any attention from the boys because she is not 'giving out'. This is a contrast to her image as she appears to be a 'slut' however, when it actually comes down to it, she is the complete opposite to her friend who is kissing the other boy. As the boys friend 'isn't getting any action' he directs his attention to the other girl. This isolates the Hayley however the colour does not change as she is putting on 'a brave face' and hiding her true emotions. We can see slight sadness when the camera focuses on her face. We can see an example of this below:
So overall, Francesca and I hope we achieved the use of Synaesthesia by changing the colors to represent the emotions. We felt that the audience would hopefully understand the meanings behind each shot.
