A vast majority of society looks upon and examines sufferers from any health issue in different ways, some

sympathetic, some are intimidated and others simply don’t care. Mental health disease sufferers, however, are even more often outcasted from society. Reason being that a mental disorder is not something we can physically see, thusly being a widely unknown concept in turn leading to hundreds of people just outcasted from society without being given a chance. It is a well known fact that the human race is intimidated by things it doesn’t understand. Now comes to the current society of younger people that are widely ignorant and narrow minded towards the real world. This is due to the large intake of games consoles, music, tv programs, films, etc; leading to false expectations on reality.

What would I like to do? Well quite simply I would like to highlight the world issue of mental disorders to the young

adult generation through the use of a music video.

Want to know how? Then pay attention.

The Mourning AfterBy Mac Miller

Why this song?

Mac Miller in my eyes is a conscious rapper, meaning that he adapts his music to his own experiences in life, in turn

making him a relatable artist and allows his audience to create their own interpretations to his songs to simply vibe to or to help them through a rough time in life.

This song is one of my personal favourites because it can lead to so many different interpretations it is quite

outstanding. It is in my mind the ideal song to get across to my audience the concept of sometimes what happens is something that is uncontrollable, as if written in a script and is just played out.

The way I see it, this song is about a distorted relationship where they both know that they are no good for

eachother, yet love eachother so much they cannot say goodbye. Which is a situation that is quite common within the current society of young people. However the way I interpret the video is that one night the argument got out of hand and he shot her because of a split personality decision, meaning that he didn’t know what he was doing and is regretting the desicion.

Type of video?

I am going to attempt to combine three types of video. Performance, abstract and narrative. The reason being that it

will entice my target audience, who, if you haven’t clocked onto yet, are the young adults 16-25.

How will it entice? Going off my own interests as well as my social groups interest I have unveiled that our age group

like to be intrigued by a music video as well as impressed by the styles of rapping/singing and clothing. Another ideal is that we simply like controversy. With this in mind I am going to create an artist that will rap the chosen song that will be controversial and interesting, along with this, I am not going to make an extravagant music video that will take the attention away from the words to the song, it will be a relatable ideal for the audience to understand.

Concept.

The artist lays with his dead girlfriend in his arms, happening throughout the song are flashbacks to certain points in the relationship.

Also the artist in a mirrored room with dimmed lights rapping the song.

Concept.

Costume

When the artist is laying on the floor with dead girlfriend he will be wearing a white shirt with a bow tie undone around his neck and she will be in a dress.

The artist and girlfriend will be wearing casual clothes, hoodies, jeans, shorts, t shirts etc. With a made up brand on them, to make the artist seem unique.

LocationSet in a house with a garden, the reason being that it implies that they have moved in together and were ready to start a proper life with each other.

Marketing

The artist will be marketed as a deep, psychological rapper. In other words his songs will make you question what life is really worth.

Often with this type of artist they have a trademark, the trademark for my artist is different coloured eyes. I haven’t decided just yet but they will be out of three colours, black, white and yellow.

Target audience.

DemographicsYoung adults: 16-25

City born

Males and females.

PsychographicsPeople that like to skateboard.

Listen to rap music.

Sufferers of illnesses such as schizophrenia and insomnia

Aspect I wish to include.

I want to include: Different coloured eyes, triple split screens, neon/normal body paint, slow motion, jump cuts, obscure obliviousness, intense graphic imagery.