Influences/THE PITCH

Keywords
Literal - melting heart, waves, day(dawn til dusk),
Fun/Playful
Colourful
Performance
fragmented
1960's

Influences
Noah and the whale - 5 years time
Blur - song 2/ parklife / country house
Zutons - valerie
Sum41 - in too deep
Ok Go - here we go again
Feeder - just a day
Weezer - pork and beans
Arctic monkeys - fluorescent adolescent
Kate Nash - foundations
Jamie T - Sheila/ calm down dearest
Scouting 4 Girls - its not about you




The Jamie T video influenced us because we like the idea of an actor miming the words, one who is obviously not actually singing the lyrics. Bob Hoskins is the case in this video (an actor who is much older than Jamie T) if we chose to do this idea we would use somebody noticeably younger looking than our lead singer.



The Kate Nash video is very colourful and playful, we like this idea and would definately use aspects of it in ours.

Noah and the whale is a good example of the type of video we'll be making ....





Smile is a good example because it uses the same kind of effects such as when she is in the cafe with her ex she is singing but he is not aware.

A clip that we definately know we would like to use is a clip of one setting from dusk untill dawn which would probably be repeated when the chorus is heard (for literal meaning) 'as the days, like the waves, pile up behind you'.


We've initially had the idea of making our music video using a little bit of all of our influences; we like the idea of having fragmented clips (literal or non literal) which continue the length of our music clip. a main idea of ours is to use lots of quick editing between our shots to give our video a playful/comical feel.

The pitch

For our music video we are hoping to use a male performer who is an actor from college. For some of the camera shots we would film it with the cameraman sitting in a wheelchair. So then we can film while moving with the performer and also it gives a much smoother clip.

Some ideas for our location where : Restaurant with different girlfriends
Seaside
Town / City
Party with friends

Our main idea is that the performer has recently split up with his girlfriend and his mates keep trying to set him up with other girls to help him but he is not interested. When he is dating the girls, he is in his own world singing to the camera rather than talking to the date. The situations we would like to put the man in would be him dating lots of girls in different locations such as the seaside, restaurants, party's etc.

We thought this would be a good idea because it is different and requires skill of the actor and a challenge for the director. It would also be quite comical for the audience watching the man in situations where he is in his own world singing and the person or people with him are unaware of this.