Synopsis

For ‘I Got Your Message’

Duration: 4 minutes

Characters: A girl (the protagonist), her lover (another girl)

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

The protagonist of the narrative is also the performer in the music video.

The music video starts off with two diegetic scenes: Phones in different locations 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 next scene shows the two characters sitting outdoors, close yet with enough distance between them to making it seem awkward. The protagonist goes to hold her lover’s hand at the same time her lover pulls her hand to put her hair behind her ear, looking at the side. The protagonist awkwardly plucks the grass and slowly moves her hand back to her lap, fidgeting.

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

In the next scene the girl is 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.

In the next scene she seems dazed, staring into space, as all the messages she has sent crowd around her head.

This is followed by a close up of her, 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 is another advertisement for Viagra pills.

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

In the next scene she’s 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.

Next, there is a quick succession of shots of different doors. The scene changes to two hands, loosely interlocked, one falling away. There is an action match to the protagonist falling backwards with her arm raised up as if reaching for something.

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 scene shifts to the protagonist turning the dial of her radio up. She sways lightly to the music.

The next scene is another diegetic one. Her lover stands at her door. She says “Lets break up" and subtitles portray her thoughts which also say “Let’s break up”. The protagonist stares at her lover 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 she says “okay.” She closes the door and puts her headphones on.

The song resumes as a wild unchoreographed dance sequence follows in her residence and then in the outdoors location the girls were sitting at in the beginning, with her lover is unseeing (as if a memory is revisted).

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 outdoors, the lover now gone and her residence.

The next 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.