Synopsis

• The film begins with the band setting up. They begin the song as soon as the amp is shown being plugged in. They are filmed singing “She’s all laid up in bed with a broken heart, while I’m drinking jack all alone in a local bar” and there are a mix of quick shots to exemplify the tension in the relationship being discussed.


• The next line “And we don’t know how, how we got into this mad situation, only doing things out of frustration, trying to make it work but man, these times are hard” will exhibit the couple in a room first shown as separated and calculating and contemplating in their own heads about the feud they are having. The male tries to comfort the girl but she pushes him way and he decides to leave. After the last word ‘hard’ there is a 3 second pause between the lyrics in which a piano plays. The male lead slams the door as he leaves in sync with the last beat before the next verse begins.


• The next shot presents a cross fade between the band playing and the emotions of the characters. The man is shown walking away from the previous location, but constantly turning back and hesitating, then finally deciding to leave (she needs me now...). Then the girl is shown pacing in her room (I got a new job now on the unemployment line). Throughout these scenes there is a faded image of the band playing covering all shots.


• “But we’re gonna start by drinking on cheap bottles of wine” shows the band singing. “Sit talking up all night, saying things we haven’t for a while. A while yeah” presents the girl sliding work off her desk in frustration. She knocks a photo album off the desk and picks it up.


• “Smiling but we’re close to tears even after all these years. We just now got the feeling that we’re meeting for the first time” shows the boy walking into his old room and taking out a photo album from his bag which has “for you <3” written on the front.


• There’s a big drop as the instrumental begins with “Oooooooooh’s”, in sync with the drop both of the characters are shown sliding to the floor against a wall with the photo albums on their laps with a split screen so they are seemingly back to back. During this 20 second space there are shots following each of the couples separately turning the pages of their albums and looking at photos. Through this time there are various short clips of the band.


• “She’s in line at the store with her head held high” demonstrates the girl noticing a picture of the couple on London bridge and it zooms in and fades quickly to white then into the moment. “While I just lost my job I didn’t lose my pride” shows them on London bridge posing animatedly in front of a camera as a tourist takes the picture for them.


• The band are shown singing the lines “and we both know how, how were gonna make it work, when it hurts. When you pick yourself up, then get kicked in the dirt. Tryna make it work but damn these times are hard.”


• With the chorus “Were gonna start by drinking on cheap bottles of wine, sit talking up all night, saying things we haven’t for a while, a while yeah” we can show the male coming across a picture of the girl pulling a really cheesy smile in the kitchen and it zooms into the moment. As the line reads “Smiling but...” shes smiling like she was in the picture but as it says “close to tears” the male putting flour on her nose so she pulls a sad/cross face and the two laugh.


• “Even after all these years, we just now got the feeling that were meeting for the first time” shows quick clips of the two play fighting with the flour then the “for the first time” shows them about to kiss before it goes back to reality with a white out.


• Then the band are shown singing the “Oooooooh” bit, while in between we cut to different shots of each of the couple in split screen. From a front view they both look up wishing they were together and then from a side view they both stand up.


• As the line “Oh these times, yeah they're making us crazy, don't give up on me baby” is repeated over the duration of 45 seconds the male is shown walking towards his ex-partners house with small shots of the band in between. As he reaches her door and goes to knock, she opens and they hug as she invites her back into her house,


• The last shot shows the band walking off the set.