prologue anaylsis

we are planning to use a prologue at the beginning of our video, I have found some music videos that use this technique to see what they are trying to show/represent.



this is the music video for Ed Sheeran's Drunk, an artist we listed as a similar artist. this has a slightly shorted 15 second prologue. here, the prologue is used to introduce the idea of a man, who is thinking and reminiscing about an old girlfriend. a close up shot of the pictures on the wall subtly shows the main character with the girl. this allows the audience to begin to wonder about exactly what happened or what is happening now, this draws the audience in and makes them want to keep watching.
we are planning on using subtle dialogue to create a story, but still leave mystery as to the details of the narrative of the video, which will be later explored in the video.
it seems the prologues of videos are never any longer than 35 seconds, and this one was around 15 seconds, so we will aim to fit the conventions of the genre and make our prologue about 10-20 seconds.