CB: Track Concept

Skin (Rihanna, 2010)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0m_03ZHJYA

• Location: could be set in a house at the beginning, then cross cut to a baseball pitch in an American high school and shots of the actors in the school corridors. Could cross cut to a pool party.
• Narrative: love story between a teenage girl and boy, cut to the girl in her bedroom writing in a journal and having a picture of the boy in there.
• Performance: the boy taking a shirt off at the pool party and subtle dancing.
• Concept: the girl and boy kiss at the end of the video.
• Characters: main teenage girl and boy, accompanied in certain shots by various teenagers representing stereotypical social norms by drinking alcohol.
• Costume: school uniform and casual clothing.
• Props: journal/diary, school books, inflatable objects to go in the pool, drinking cups.
• Lighting: natural lighting and low key lighting.
• Camera Techniques: Long shots, close ups, over the shoulder shots, medium close ups.
• Post production effects: montage editing, slow motion shots