The short film music video follows the story of a character struggling with depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm. They have a nightmare about committing suicide and later their life begins improving as they make a new friend, but things take a turn for the worse as their friend abandons them. Alone and in deep despair, the character decides to end their own life by shooting themselves in the head.

1. BEAT SHEET
PROJECT TITLE: Lost In A Déjà Vu (Short Film Music Video)
GENRE: Narrative, Interpretive, Acoustic
DATE: 11/10/2015
1. Opening Image: The character is revealed to have recently
passed away after a suicidal action, to which they’ve shot
themselves with a gun.
2. Theme Stated: Depression, Sadness, Lost Hope, Death,
Repetition
3. Set-Up: Character is revealed to have just shot themselves
straight through the head. Blood trails are everywhere, and are
further shown through the use of long shot with a mix of bird’s
eye view.
4. Catalyst: Everything cuts to black and the character is
revealed to have had a nightmare, sweating and panicking over
the horrendous dream they’ve recently had.
5. Debate: The character grows conflicted, as they are aware
that this simply reflects on how they truly feel. The character
begins to cry in fear, unsure of what’s happening.
6. Break into Two: A time lapse is revealed through the use of
cloud movements, and the character is shown to be dressed up and
ready to go to school.
7. B Story: The character is revealed to be progressively
struggling with their academics and social life, often getting
into trouble with teachers. Character continues to struggle with
their daily life.
8. Promise of Premise: A friend approaches them in an attempt to
aid them with their situation. The duo begins to grow closer.
9. Midpoint: The character’s life seems to be slowly getting
better; they’re slowly recovering from suicidal thoughts and
self-harming as such.
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): Soon the latter finds out about
the character’s horrible situation (i.e. self-harm, heavy
smoker, etc) and begins to distance themselves from the
character. The character is once again left alone to fend for
themselves, and is badly beaten up by the local gang.

2. 11. All Is Lost: The character realizes they’ve no longer got a
reason to live. Several photographs of the ones they love are
portrayed, but each with an ‘x’ mark to reveal their abandonment
of the character. The character begins to go in a frenzy of
self-harm, but fails to appease them.
12. Dark Night of the Soul: The character then slowly stands up,
looks at them in the mirror and is revealed to hate what they
see. A slow progression of the character taking the gun is
shown, looking at it carefully.
13. Break into Three: A smile comes out from the character as
they are revealed within another area; possibly within an
outdoors room somewhere in the nearby location of their house.
Their happiness is reflected through their constant smiling, but
fear and pain is reflected through the tears flowing down their
eyes.
14. Finale: The character has finally given up on living, and is
shown to point the gun on their head, shaking vigorously;
frightened but prepared of what’s to come.
15. Final Image: As the character pulls the trigger, the scene
cuts to black and a loud bang is heard, leaving little to the
audience’s imagination.