Assignment 6: Initial Ideas
Idea 1
Type: Performance & Narrative
Song: "Monster" - The Automatic
Genre: Post-punk revival, alternative rock
Target audience: 15-25 year olds
- The Narrative will have a band performing in a shed or on stage.
- Band wears casual but trendy clothing.
- The Performance will feature a young man (most likely the artist) taking drugs. He then experiences hallucinations such as a scary creatures.
Idea 2
Type: Narrative with a Performance
Song: "The A Team" - Ed Sheeran
Genre: Indie folk
Target audience: 15-30 year olds
- The artist will play a guitar.
- The Narrative will feature a person who is suffering from depression (could be the artist). There are scenes that show why he is depressed.
- There would be cross cutting between the narrative & artist performing with a guitar.
- As the song draws to a close, he aims to commit suicide by jumping off a multi-storey car park, but chooses not to.
Idea 3
Type: Narrative
Song: "Things We Lost in the Fire" - Bastille
Genre: Indie pop
Target audience: 15-25 year olds
- The artist wears a long sleeve top & baseball cap.
- Two close friends have a massive fall out (one of them is the artist). This is shown when there are scenes of the two former friends throwing pictures away: one throws them in the bin, the other (the artist) burns them with a match. At the end of the video, they make peace.
Idea 4
Type: Narrative
Song: "Changed the Way You Kiss Me" - Example
Genre: Electro
Target audience: 15-25 year olds
- After a fallout with his girlfriend, a young person (the artist) does daring & dangerous activities to impress her & get her back.
- The girl takes no interest. She eventually re-settles with another guy.
Assignment 6: Initial Ideas
By Laurence Ellis
Assignment 6: Initial Ideas
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