Treatment Sheet

History of Chosen Song:

"The Girl" is track 10 from the band City & Colours second full length album, "Bring Me Your Love". The song was written, composed and performed by Dallas Green. The album was recorded Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, Ontario. The studio itself is a renovated church, the entire studio is open plan. Green explained that "its like a totally open concept studio, like theres no studio room or vocal booth or stuff like that".

Dallas described that he wanted a live feeling for the record and this is can be heard as a majority of the songs have a slight echoced sound when playing in the church. Green also explained that the reasoning for this studio was so that his music was not over produced like so many other bands are in modern times.

My interpritation of the song is that He is in love with a girl who does everything for him to keep the relationship working. Even though he's off doing his own thing as stated within the song. He promises to be faithful to her and he hates to see her sad because he think it's his fault.

The Music Video:

My music video is mainly performance based with limited narrative. The main bulk of the music video will be set within the theatre within Hartlepool 6th Form College and also within the colleges recording studio. When filming I would like to get a natural run especially whilst in the studio to give it a more realistic feel. After receiving the results to my questionnaire I have chosen to shoot a black and white video as I believe it is very suited to relaxing music and is very easy on the eyes when watching.

My reasoning for choosing to having a black and white video is also that it is a common convention within a lot of acoustic music videos. Another convention which I intend to use is being able to portray emotion through the video complimenting the music itself. As it is an acoustic video there will not only be focus on the front man but I also want there to be heavy focus on the guitar itself.

The idea to shoot in the studio was to make the video a little bit more interesting as the majority of the shots would have just been in the theatre which I feel for to long, would have gotten abit repetitive.