our first pitch

As a group we have come up with some ideas of what the narrative of our video could be from listen to the track many times over.  After looking at all of the different ideas we came up with we put parts of each idea together to come up with one final idea.

1.

• This was the first idea we came up with as a group.  We all had the idea of the main character / artist sitting in a dark room spotlighted.  We were thinking to set up 4 cameras in each corner of the room so we could get him at different angles and points of the room.  We thought that extreme close ups of body parts could show the creepiness of the lyrics.  We thought it was a good idea to get a lot of different shots in different angles so that we could change the shot to the beat of the music as it is quite staccato throughout. Having just the one actor on his own in a room reacting to the lyrics and music would leave the audience engaged wondering what the actor will go on to do next.

2.

• The second idea Daniel had came up with after listening to the soundtrack over. He tried to think into the different themes what can come of the song.  The first he thought of was Zombies as the instrumental comes off as quite machinery like which made him think of zombies.  He still took ideas such as the extreme close ups of body parts to use in his idea as it can show a lot in a persons personality or frame of mind at the time by just looking at their movement. The close ups will go on to a close up of the main actors face, half of the actors face would be covered in make-up which would make him look dead/zombie like.  The following shots would then show him in different locations rather than just the one which could show isolation.  This links to The Prodigy music video 'Invaders must die'.  

3.

• The 3rd idea was again inspired by Daniel when he noticed our school lecture room. An idea of a 'break up' with the artist and his ex 'lover'. Like the first two ideas the ECU will stay the same, the narrative would be of the artist showing a home made video of the couples relationship shown on the wall through a projector. The audence would look as if it is to an empty lecture room until the end when you just see a silhouette of the woman.  The recorded video shows the ups and downs of their relationship and he slowly starts to break down as the relationship shows it's breaking while miming along to the soundtrack. 

4.

• Because idea 3 could come across more of a pop genre type of music video because it could come across as cheesy. So we chose to avoid that part. But as the location of the lecture room is a really good place to show a performance element, we have chosen to keep it.  We are going to make a power point about love and A.D.D and life which fits with the lyrics more and comes across less cheesy.  We could also use graphs and statistics which are scientific which is synergistic to our genre.  The artist will perform as a 'mad professor' presenting the presentation to a small audience who start to notice himself losing and and gradually leaving one by one, leaving one person in the audience - the ex partner.  again we will use ECU and cut up shots, fitting with the beat of the music. 

As you can see throughout we kept the idea of ECU.  This is because the lyrics of the song 'Sail' are quite psychotic for example 'maybe I should kill myself, I blame it on my A.D.D baby'. From looking at a persons facial expressions and body movements you can tell how they are feeling.  Therefore the ECU of the body parts will show him gradually losing it in the narrative.