Movement

Looking into sad/moving media texts and they tend to use a lot of close up shots of eyes, mouths, fingers, quivering lips, close-up shots of a tear moving very slowly down the face, downwards looking and very smooth shots, however the edit is still quickly cut.
I'm going to include these shots as I feel they're important in trying to evoke an emotional response from the audience.
Also I think it could be good to include shots of water related scenes i.e rain, overflowing gutters, dripping, bleak taps and still water.
The sequences of water shots could come before the quick shots of the black and white background story of the guy remembering what he'd done. The video would start with a fading in shot of the guy playing the piano, then we would follow this as the main narrative and this would be them man who performs, putting a lot of energy and passion into this song and as it comes back down we see his quivering fingers on the piano keys, and soft rolling tears down his cheeks. To his left is a window with rain splashing down the glass. On key chord changes it would go the the flashbacks of him and his girlfriend. The next set of flashbacks would be her cheating on him. The next set would be him attacking her. The next set would be him realising what he had done. After each flashback his face will clench up in regret. Also whilst the girl is singing at the start of the song we see her sitting in the dark and we will see the quivering fingers and so on with her aswell. A close up shot of a detail of some blood on her hand will be seen and at the end of the song her hand will appear on the guys shoulders with the same detail, then he looks at it, then as he turns round expecting to see her she is gone.