Always - NARRATIVE

The Narrative of Always (Architects, 2007)

Above is the Narrative as a short film. Obviously it is very badly cut due to the way it was in the music video but I think it illustrates very well the way to go about making a narrative. Make a short film! It needs as much care as a short film and should not be treated as just a space filler. The narrative of Always shows an architect struggling to design something, until he finds an unusual pattern on his neck which completes his sketch.

The narrative is made up of 21 different shots (video below) and 112 different cuts. It lasts around 01:25 in total which is around a third of the video, a fair proportion of music video to take up. It works well in contrast with the fast paced band performance as it is quite a slow paced story. The video starts with a plain black frame which makes up the 112th cut.



The roaming shots may look very different between each cut but it safe to assume this was all filmed as one big take where the cameraman went around the subject zooming in and out to get lots of different angles of the action.