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Initial Balance- In our music video The Chasing- Hands Open, the intial balance is portrayed showing the relationship of the boy and girl this is running smoothly like any good relationship. This is shown in their house in the kitchen, where they are shown together as any good couple and are messing around, laughing and talking as normal as couples do. Everything that is shown highlights how well there relationship is going with no defects in it, as the boyfriend is shown to look like he will do a lot for his girlfriend since he cares about her so much. They are also shown wearing matching bracelets- we decided to use these to represent their relationship, the colour of this bracelet is red which highlights the love they have for eachother. This is also very recent to what people do today when they are in a relationship together and want to show this to others by having matching things. We use an extreme close up of both hands to show their strong connection and to show their strong feelings for eachother.

Occurence- The occurance in the video then turns to the Boy when he meets up with another girl in a cafe; where he is spotted with another girl by his actual girlfriends friend. This contrasts with the initial balance and creates the questioning about the relationship that is portrayed in the video. After this the girl leaves the cafe which she finds a bracelet that the boy was wearing on his wrist (which has obviously fallen off). She then picks it up and wears it not knowing it will cause trouble for him and his girlfriend... Whilst they are walking down the street they bump into eachother which causes the girlfriend to find out they she has the bracelet on. Which leads to her thinking something is going on. She jumps to conclusions and does not want to listen to what her boyfriend has to say as it is not how it looks and that his feelings all lie with him. But she does not want to know and everytime he trys to explain himself she doesn't listen and just stands by what she thinks. However she does not know that he pulled his hand away and had no intention of anything like that happening. So everything that happens in this part contrasts drastically from what is portrayed in the first scene of the relationship going so well.

New Equilibrium- The girlfriend finally listens to what he has to say and gives in to him as he has approached her so many times to tell her his side of the story. She lets him in his house where they sit on the stairs and talk to eachother about it all. From this the gilfriend believes what he has has to say and takes him back.
The couple get back together- this is displayed by a new white bracelet. The white bracelet highlights the fresh start white- being a fresh colour and they both get rid of the old one that the other girl tried to steal and highlight something that wasnt what it seemed.
We felt this was a good way to finish our music video as the audience might not expect them to get back together since the way they are shown in the video as they are shown to be so far away of ever getting back together. So we wanted to challenge our audience and show them something that was not expected.