Narrative for my video

Since deciding the foundations for my video, I have been trying to figure out an idea. Here is a list of all the ideas I have had, showing how they lead to my current one.

My first idea was to have someone doing parkour, and a trail of light following them. However, I could think of no way to expand on this, and the effects side of it would restrict me from doing several things. However, I still like the idea of the trail coming from the person.

Next, I contemplated having a man sitting down, when the light goes through him, and leads him to something. This is an idea I later expanded on, although it was abandoned at this point.

With some help from some friends, we came up with the idea of having the first idea, but at the end of the video/each section zooming out on the area and revealing an image, possibly using several people for different coloured lights. However, I could think of nothing worth showing as an image, and it would be hard to zoom out to such scale, so I gave up on this one.

Next, there was the idea of having an object that created the light streaks, starting with a football, which people would carry and play with while doing parkour, but this didn't have an interesting narrative, and would have gotten dull fast.

After, I was recommended to have the light come from a package which is passed from person to person before reaching the destination. I still like this, but is too far from my current idea to use.

Then came the idea closest to my current idea - a man follows a light trail leading him to a woman. This has been expanded on the most since due to the ease of creating such a video, the lack of major limitations and the relation to the lyrics.

Ric from the band had the idea of two people trying to get to a person in a dark room, with both of the people leaving trails, before reaching the middle person, who then runs away, showing he has both trails.

A friend from the parkour group then came up with the idea of having several different people running towards the same object, but I thought that this would look confusing and people would get mixed up, unlike the last idea, which could have worked using the 180 degree rule.

Man runs towards the train station for most the video doing parkour and things on the way, reaches it to find his lover/similar coming towards him. She then slowly fades away, presumably because she has died a while back, and the man is having visions of her and hopes to be with her or something similar. Emo-y shot of the guy, fade to black. Light trails are in the film because they are cool, or symbolise a path through life. This led to my current idea.

The film follows the path of a ghost, who is doing parkour. Never expanded or thought too much about this.

Guy follows a trail of light, leading him to (presumably, as shown through short flashbacks) his lover. Trail takes him to her grave. Thought this was a little depressing.

The video is a guy doing parkour alone, with the light trailing behind him. Somehow, the narrative will explain how he lost his lover, and he ends up throwing himself off a building. As his falls, we see the light trails die, or after he dies, the light remains.

I was encouraged to have the man chasing the woman, but both have the light trails, but I gave up on this early after having no luck finding any female traceurs.

My current idea: It is twilight. Fades from black to show a depressed looking man sitting down, where his friends are doing flips around him and having fun, while comforting him and mentioning a girl. Full diegetic sound here, and the song has not started. The music cuts in as the film cuts to a woman's silhouette against a bridge above a river. The camera, now zoomed in on the left side of the back of her head, pans down to show her hand, where she is holding a necklace. As she starts to walk away, the necklace in her hand flashes. Cut back to the man. A light bursts out of his heart, and the man chases it. His friends get up, confused, and chase after him, trying to pull him back. The protagonist uses parkour to get around quickly, and during the chorus his friends, unable to keep up, drop off one by one (like in the parkour scene of "Banlieue 13"). The parkour continues, and during the second chorus, the man dives forward and touches the light, shocking him into replaying several memories as flashbacks, showing his relationship with the girl from the start inbetween parkour, and as the end of the video nears, the relationship is seen to start failing. At the end, the man finds the necklace from the start lying on the floor, and the light fades, destroying his hopes of seeing her again.

Silence intro - intro man
0.00 Intro - intro woman
0.08 Intro - light bursts out, man runs away, and friends give chase
0.14 First verse - running from people and parkour starts. Light parkour for now (catpasses ect)
0.46 First chorus - escaping people (one at a time over 30 odd seconds) using large jumps and walls to scale.
1.17 Second verse - more exciting parkour than first chorus
1.55 Second chorus - catches the light. Flashbacks of the couple are used here
2.25 The light escapes (although flashbacks continue), leading the man to the necklace - most interesting parkour here.2.50 See the necklace lying on the floor. Possibly end on a flashback of the couple in their happy days.

Ideas for the flashbacks.

Will need short shots - almost pictures of the couple being happy, likely in slow motion.
Photo booth scene
Flashbacks often have perfect shots to accompany them - I will do and exaggerate this best I can.
Silhouettes of hugging/arm round shoulders
Have the "ghosts from the past" in some of the end shots as Brendan runs past them, using the
Use memorable locations from the parkour scenes in the flashbacks. A "memory lane" type route.

I chose to use this idea (as well is simply liking it the most) due to the practicality of it - there is nothing about it which will be particularly hard to do, which reduces the limits of what I can do. I also like the idea of using the girl - it gives a decent purpose to the video, and is also very generic of this sort of song. The way the video moves on is also vital, given the progressive nature of the song, and how it never stops going - which is another vital aspect - the parkour is constant too.