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Time – Day

The main protagonist of my video is a humorous looking man that wears a cartoon mask to cover his identity. The narrative follows this character throughout the video, he travels all over many places (walking around in his own town) searching for a ‘something’ to replace his old life… A contextual link of this would be of a story from the novel ‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac. To look for that ‘something’ the character starts traveling whilst playing his guitar. The camera tracks or focuses mainly on the character walking on the pathway. The man sees a house and enters cautiously inside. A close up shot of the protagonist opening the entrance door occurs followed by a POV shot of the character looking right and left. Inside the house entrance is the kitchen; the man looks through the draws hoping that he would find what he was looking for. Another POV shot is used but not of the main character, instead this shot is used to represent the owner of the house. Following this shot is a medium shot of the character slowly looking towards his back. He sees the owner and immediately he gets kicked out of the house. Failing to search for what he wanted the character walks out of the area whilst playing his guitar. Again with the tracking shots we see him walking towards another location, he sees another house which we could see because of a POV shot. He enters (again with the close up of the door)…. A close up of a Christmas tree slowly panning towards the left we see the character searching under a sofa, but the same result occurs as the first attempt. We see a POV of the house owner coming down the stairs. The owner holds a weapon in his right hand which is shown by a medium close up shot. Within the same frame is the main protagonist looking directly at the owner. The protagonist runs out of the house escaping from danger. Not being able to look in this

house, he searches for another. Finally he sees another house… But this time we don’t experience what the character is seeing inside the house, instead he gets kicked out immediately. Looking sad and helpless he walks away but in front of him on the floor, he sees ‘something’… The object lying on the floor appears to be what the character was searching for all along. The screen fades out to a black screen leaving us nothing to see of what the character does with the object. One final clip occurs, it fades in and we see a close up of a guitar as well a mask, both items belonged to the main protagonist and on the blurry part of the clip is the character walking off…The screen fades back to black.