Music Video; Ideas

Our initial idea involves flicking between performance scenes and a narrative, and perhaps interlinking the two at some point.

• The performance footage would be shot in vivid colour, to tie in with the 80's indie-pop genre of the music. This would contrast with some of the narrative, shot in sepia or black and white, in an old style classroom.


• The narrative would bascially be following the lyrics, a guy trying to get a girl's attention. However towards the end there would be some kind of twist, to do with the girl cheating on him, but in an unpredictable way so it's not too cliché.


• The performance side would include shots of the crowd, at a gig and close up's of instruments being played. We thought of starting the song with close ups of speakers/amps being plugged in, guitars being plugged in, drum sticks being picked up etc, and on the last beat of the song, a shot of a lead being pulled out, before fading to black.


• We also decided to have the titles and some lyrics, on a blackboard, in the classroom. Perhaps appearing using stop motion, or using a teacher character to write them on the blackboard.


• To link the performance and narrative, we thought of showing the guy and girl attending the gig where the band are playing, so that we can use other locations outside the classroom.