Synopsis

For ‘I Got Your Message’

Type: Concept and Performance

Duration: 4 minutes

Characters: A girl (the protagonist)

Locations: A room with telephones, the protagonist’s residence, an empty room

The music video starts off with a scene with diegetic audio. Phones in different rooms ring. Their sound melds together creating a sense of urgency. It eventually singles out to one telephone. The protagonist slowly makes her way towards it, picking it up. “Hello” she says.

The screen fades to black, displaying the title of the song as the first strains of music play.

This is followed by the girl shown waiting around a telephone, her changes in position around said object and the dimming of the sky outside which will be visible through blinds, indicating a time lapse.

She seems dazed, staring into space, as all the messages she has sent crowd around her head. Then a close up of her is shown. She is looking directly into the camera as she starts singing.

The scene shifts to her flip phone indicating she has new messages which she checks but is disappointed to find out it says ‘0 new messages’

Next, she sits in a room filled with different types of phones and she continues singing.

Two hands are shown joined by a red string. One of the hands tries to desperately grasp at the string, entagling their hand in the string in the process while the other hand rests impassively.

She’s then shown sitting next to a childish painting of two stick figures holding hands. She continues to sing and above her head three pixelated hearts pop up, one of which is empty and one that is flickering, indicating her low happiness level.

This is followed by a quick succession of shots of different doors.

In the next scene there are shots of her with messages saying “fool in love” and the laughing emoji taped to her back, reminiscent of high school pranks.

The protagonist turns the dial of her radio up. She sways lightly to the music.

The next scene has diegetic audio. She picks up the phone and her lover says “Lets break up" and subtitles portray her thoughts which also say “Let’s break up”. The protagonist stares ahead looking distraught for a while as a long rant, her thoughts on the matter, are shown in subtitles. The last thought to appear is “You don’t deserve me” as her face hardens and she says “okay.” She hangs up and puts her headphones on

The two hands are shown again, the red string snapping causing the formerly restless hand to fall away. There is an action match to the protagonist falling backwards with her arm raised up as if reaching for something.

The song resumes as a wild unchoreographed dance sequence follows in her residence and around the telephone which they broke up over.

The protagonist looks into the camera, her mouth is censored as the lyrics “beep, beep” play, reconstructing the meaning.

In the next scene, the audience is transported back to the room with the canvas, where the protagonist can now be seen splashing it with bright paint, completely covering the canvas. She’s laughing and clearly having a good time.

Back in the room with telephones more performance takes place, mostly dancing as different hands hold up receivers near her figure.

There is a fast paced montage of her splashing paint, dancing in the room with telephones, dancing in her residence.

The final scene shows her next to her newly painted canvas, out of breath from all the dancing, a smile plastered on her face as the three pixelated hearts show up above her head where the last one flickers and then turns full, all three hearts now full.

The screen fades to black and the credits are displayed.