Ideas for amendments to music video production

I wanted to collect shots which showed the development of my female character into one who is 'depressed' or missing something important. I wanted to show the build up to why she is in her state because I felt it would add more interesting engagement to my piece.

I felt that while possible, there is limited effect of sticking to one central character in my actress for explaining the reasons why. It would also be fairly difficult to depict. I therefore wanted to add a new character to the mix - perhaps a love interest. I came up with the following ideas:

A love interest e.g. boyfriend, crush
A family member or close friend
A fatherly figure

I wanted to use one of these characters because it would justify the impact on my female character of becoming depressed or feeling a 'loss'. However - as the actress is only available on alternate weekends, I found difficulty in finding and arranging for another actor to play one of the roles listed above. I had to face the problem that I would have to play the new character if I wanted to make these changes. This meant that I decided to use the boyfriend character as it would be the most natural to act out.

To make matters worse, there was difficulty in finding a cameraman/woman who is willing to help in my production on such short notice. We would have to be creative in how we filmed footage. I came up with the following ideas:

Use a tripod. While reliable, I didn't particularly like the lack of movement especially in shots which I needed to be engaging and possibly fast paced

Use handheld camera shots. I would act as the cameraman but use the camera as some kind of 'selfie!' cam and film shots to give the impression of us recording our memories. This would allow me to film the good memories, and also the bad ones. I chose to use this one because

I also had to come up with ideas for what might happen to the relationship between the characters. I calmly decided that an argument would suffice, although I didn't reveal the reasons for the argument and so it can still be relate-able to a wide audience, and still contain its 'abstract' foundation.