MY IDEAS, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

To start researching I viewed various music videos which I found on Youtube. I got inspiration for ideas from simply just listening to the music as I found then I could think of ideas specifically for the song and I wasn’t plagued by copying other ideas. I got the idea for my pitch when I was just playing guitar in my room. I thought a good idea for a video would be if a band was simply playing their song in a bedroom and some of the neighbours could hear it coming from the bedroom window. They look up and are drawn hypnotically towards the window while listening to the music. The neighbours could get to their destination (underneath the window) in unique and interesting ways and they could all have their own special character. At the end of the video the band looks out of the window and sees all of the neighbours and passers by standing underneath the window in a big crowd watching the band.



There was consideration of a joke at the end, such as the passers by were actually watching a band next door to them or they were watching someone on the roof. Another idea I had was to show a superhero on and off duty. On duty he is the city’s saviour and the entire city loves him. He has women crawling at his feet and people coming up for autographs. There are then shots of him while he is off duty and at home, where he is just an average person watching TV. He lives alone apart from his cat, who he sings the song too. The song consists of him having the time of his life dancing around his house with the cat. In the cat he finds true happiness and he forgets about the fame, money and attention he gets in the outside world. The third idea I came up with was my least favourite idea, this was to have a band talking in the bus on the way to their concert while watching the people of the outside world pass by. They realise that they do not deserve their fame and success and that there are people who deserve their pay checks much more then them. At the end of the video they stop by the concert they are playing at and get out. Instead of going inside they wander away and give away all of their money to the people in greater need of it.

My idea for how to end my video was like the Pied Piper with my band playing and being followed down the street by the people who had gathered to see them.


I explained the pitch of the band playing in the bedroom idea to my group, but they didn’t seem too keen on it. They preferred an idea of having a rave to rave music.