Our Final Idea

Picking the Final Idea for our Music Video

When trying to chose a final idea for our music video we had to chose something which we thought would accurately represent the band, conform to the indie rock genre and be relatively easy to achieve. At first we decided to use our idea of including a narrative where the lead singer is late for their gig. We planned to show some mid shots of the lead singer Fin waking up on a wooden table outside a pub with an empty pint of beer next to him. He would then frantically look at the time, realising he is late for his gig, before picking up his guitar and running to the gig venue. We would switch between shots of Fin running and the band playing without him, showing Fin bursting through the venue doors and making it up onto the stage just in time to start singing. The remainder of the video would include fast cuts of their performance to keep the pace of the music video up. 

However, when trying to organise a day to film with the band so that we could try and chose a venue, we found out that the band would not be available until way after our filming deadline. This meant that we had to start our storyboards and planning again. 

The idea which we then decided on was to use children to represent the band. This meant that we would not need the band for filming at all and we could still go ahead with using a performance. In the end we also decided to keep a narrative but we chose a different one. At the start of the video we planned to show the child representing the lead singer, Fin, in her bedroom putting on her headphones to listen to Weekends by The Jacques. After he/she has put on a pair of headphones, we would transition to shots of the children representing the band in some performance scenes. Throughout the video we would cut back occasionally to the scenes in the bedroom. This should hopefully make it seem like the performance scenes are in the child's imagination as if she dreams of being in the band herself.