Song Choice and Lyric Scripting

"How You Remind Me"

Never made it as a wise man [Montage of man waking up and various flashback shots]  
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing

Tired of living like a blind man        

I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling

And this is how you remind me    

This is how you remind me [extreme closeup of mans face as he puts on sunglasses]
Of what I really am [Performance shots]
This is how you remind me [Flashback of female at the lake]

Of what I really am [Performance shot]

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story [Flashback showing a moment of Breakdown in the relationship]
This time I'm mistaken

For handing you a heart worth breaking [Performance shots] 

And I've been wrong, I've been down, [Montage of Bar shots showing man drinking]

Been to the bottom of every bottle

These five words in my head

Scream "are we having fun yet?" [Fade between bar shot and performance shot]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no [Performance shot of whole band]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no [Shots of couple walking to secluded part of the park +walking through the park]

It's not like you didn't know that [female staring at man as shot fades out]

I said I love you and I swear I still do [Close up of man in cafe whilst on phone]

And it must have been so bad [Female protagonist brings drinks over to the table]

Cause living with me must have damn near killed you 

And this is how, you remind me [performance shot of drummer]

Of what I really am [Male protagonist is unresponsive to female]

This is how, you remind me

Of what I really am [Performance shot, drummer then going onto shots of vocalist]

It's not like you to say sorry [Performance shots continue]

I was waiting on a different story 

This time I'm mistaken [Male protagonist puts the phone down]

For handing you a heart worth breaking [Performance shot of vocalist]

And I've been wrong, I've been down, [Female tries to look at males phone]

Been to the bottom of every bottle [Male snatches phone off of her, woman attempts to hit man]

These five words in my head [Man catches the girls hand, after a struggle she walks away]

Scream "are we having fun yet?" [Performance shot of the vocalist panning to drummer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no [montage of bar scenes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no [Montage showing male walking away from bar, female walking away from man]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no [Shot fading out of man standing in shock at woman walking away]

We chose to use Nickelback's 'How You Remind Me' due to the fact that it was a song that we both knew and liked, we knew the original video quite well and instantly had various ideas of how we could apply them to the lyrics of the song. As well as this, we needed to pick a song that would suit the vocalists image, as other possible songs such as 'When Im Gone' by 3 Doors Down wouldn't have been the right pitch for the voice of the vocalist. This means that even from an early stage we was thinking about the quality of the production and how it would look to the audience.