As both of us study English and Media, we are both particularly interested in narrative techniques in different forms, and how narrative structure can affect an audience in different ways. Consequently, we derived a narrative structure that incorporated a large number of shots played in reverse. We also wanted to see how effective a narrative could be without incorporating a single line of dialogue.
We framed the narrative so the viewer instantly sees an (unnamed) girl in a bath, possibly in an attempt to drown herself. The narrative then begins playing backwards, showing the viewer the girl's day leading up to what is happening in the bathroom. She is shown having been crying, and beforehand she had spent some time alone at a spring. The video seems to end with her waking up at the beginning of the day. However, subsequently we come back to the girl in the bath and shows her receiving a text, emerging from the bath, reading her text, and smiling. Her fate is ultimately left uncertain with the use of a smash cut, but it is assumed the text stops her suicide attempt. We depicted the character as completely alone throughout the video to stress the emphasis this message from someone has on her, but decided to leave the content of the message ambiguous.
