Planning Better Than Revenge

Better than Revenge

Lyrics:
Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did
Ha, Time for a little revenge
Verse:
The story starts when it was hot and it was summer
And, I had it all; I had him right there where I wanted him
She came along, got him along, and let's hear the applause
She took him faster than you can say sabotage
I never saw it coming, nor did I suspected it
I underestimated just who I was dealing with
She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum
She underestimated just who she was stealing from


[Chorus]
She's not a saint and she's not what you think
She's an actress, Whoa
She's better known for the things that she does
On the mattress, Whoa
Soon she's gonna find
Stealing other people's toys on the playground
Won't make you many friends
She should keep in mind,
She should keep in mind
There is nothing I do better than revenge, Ha


[Verse]
She lives her life like it's a party and she's on the list
She looks at me like I'm a trend and she's so over it
I think her ever present frown is a little troubling
And, she thinks I'm psycho
Cause I like to rhyme her name with things, but
Sophistication isn't what you wear, or who you know
Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go
Oh they didn't teach you that in prep school
So it's up to me
But no amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity


[Chorus]
She's not a saint and she's not what you think
She's an actress, Whoa
She's better known for the things that she does
On the mattress, Whoa
Soon she's gonna find
Stealing other people's toys on the playground
Won't make you many friends
She should keep in mind,
She should keep in mind
There is nothing I do better than revenge, Ha ha




[Bridge]
I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey
You might have him, but haven't you heard
I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey
You might have him, but I always get the last word
Whoa


[Chorus]
She's not a saint and she's not what you think
She's an actress, Whoa
She's better known for the things that she does
On the mattress, Whoa
Soon she's gonna find
Stealing other people's toys on the playground
Won't make you many friends
She should keep in mind,
She should keep in mind
There is nothing I do better than revenge,


And do you still feel like you know what you're doing,
Cause I don't think you do, Oh
Do you still feel like you know what you're doing
I don't think you do, I don't think you do
Let's hear the applause
C'mon show me how much better you are
See you deserve some applause
Cause you're so much better
She took him faster than you can say sabotage

One of the first steps we took in starting the new process for brainstorming new ideas for our new video was to listen to the video together and annotating the lyrics, we did this separately and individually to gather more ideas, and then select what idea we thought was the best.

This started to build up the background of our mise en scene and particular themes. Like in Taylor Swift videos we would use the artist as the Protagonist (Emma), and as the theme of the video is revenge we would use an antagonist (Amy) to aim the revenge at to base our narrative on.
From this we decided on a short simple story line. Girl meets boy, another girl steals boy, heartbroken girls plans revenge. Themes we will portray in our video will be love, hate and jealousy.

We would also have realistic settings for example, bedrooms, school environment and some outside natural environments.  For example we thought Amy's bedroom would be good to set the Protagonist bedroom in.

The bedroom has a large spacey centre ideal for being able to use for filming, it has all the things commonly found in a typical girls bedroom, wardrobes, clothes, dresser. Another setting we decided on was using our drama room. We have a tiny budget therefore we dont have the equipment to manipulate lighting, however in the drama room they do have this equipment. In this setting we would use the artist as herself performing, and whilst she performs we can play with the red and green lights as these colours represent anger and jealousy.

Another smaller idea we had was darts hitting a dartboard with the antagonists picture on. This represents the theme of hate and we could use the darts hitting the board in time with the  drum beat at the start that counts the song in.