Pitch
For our music video project Fred and I decided that we'd like to make something politically profound, however that would also identify with our peers at an age range of 17-19 year old's. With this age demographic we felt that we could make a really strong piece as we are both young adults with aspirations of attending universities next year in our education. With this train of thought we felt it would be a good idea to do a piece that links to the student cuts in 2011 and thus had the idea of using a generic student character involved with the "March for the Alternative" movement.
The original idea was to film in London and join a protest movement of any kind to get our footage, however this seemed unachievable and highly dangerous as well as expensive and inaccessible.
So with this in mind Fred and I decided to concentrate more of a "behind the scenes" look at what toll the cuts would have on the students. Therefore we decided to do a "day in the life" principle by showing a stereotypical teenage student who failed to gain entrance to a university due to the cuts and increasing expense to higher education which is commonly becoming a middle to upper class privilege.
Therefore we decided that we would have one sole protagonist similar to videos such as "Bittersweet Symphony"; "The Day I Died" and "Sunday Morning Call". Our protagonist would be struggling with depression due to the crushing realization that he will forever be doomed to living his life wondering what might have been, had he been able to afford the opportunity to attend a university. His life has been intoxicated with alcohol and drug abuse, amongst violence and anger at the world surrounding him; our narrative follows the broken soul on his journey to trying to find himself, firstly by figuring out what to do with his future.
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| Image representing the worth of a degree in the modern world, the student is depicted as a homeless man begging for money. His hat is used as a collection tray and his degree is what one would expect the sign to say "money for food". |
An ambitious idea and definitely related to the condition of many young people in the UK. Alienation and rebellion are conventions of folk and rock thus it will be interesting to see how you represent this in your music video.
ReplyDeletePlanning, I mean the nitty gritty of planning, for example story boards, locations, costumes, casting, props, objects etc remain absent on your blog.