C2C – Down the road

We thought that this track is appealing to us because it creates a fun mood as we are young people & like to play with ideas in order to create something new. This track will allow us to explore our creativity and make informed decisions regarding our music video.

Mind-maps of possible ideas?

Our best idea…• The protagonist being shouted at by his wife and the camera

zooms in onto his eye to focus in on his thought track of his wish to escape into an alternative world on a journey with snippets of animation.

• The main concept of our music video is to follow the protagonist’s bizarre journey into his imagination. This will allow us to take advantage of various shots & a range of Mise-en-scene like to modernise tradition.

• We then come back to the protagonist sitting on his porch, a train rolls past [old/vintage train?] offering him the chance to escape leaving the audience questioning whether he will leave his wife/stay.

Relation to lyrics & visuals

• Our idea about the wife being present relates to the words ‘Darling’ & ‘baby’ which are associated with happy relationships and affection towards each other. However, when he sings ‘have no place to go’ it relates to the images of him walking down this ‘never ending’ road onto the journey in his mind.

• The lyrics ‘goodbye baby’ parallel with the shots of the protagonist possibly leaving his wife and the word ‘Ahhhhh’ could reflect how indecisive he is about the idea.

• & Again, the lyrics ‘that train rode up now’ is shown as possibly a long shot to emphasise the idea of the opportunity to go…

Filming location ideas?

Mise-en-scene ideas?Our idea of fields/rural ideas represent the idea of freedom from his wife as there is a lot of green area which is associated with free space.

Our protagonists ‘banjo’ [guitar] represents his object for escape from his wife as it is something which he has some form of passion for.

The costume of the straw hat & the dungarees emphasises our idea about the cow-boy/rural theme because of the music at the beginning which sort of conforms to the stereo-type of the cow-boyish music.

Our shot of the train passing represents his chance to escape from his wife but does he decide to take the chance/not?

Camera angles? Shots?

Dolly shot/Tracking shot

Pans

Close ups/medium shots/long shots

Establishing shots

ETC…

Inspirations…Daft Punk – Around the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4&safe=active

Cold play – Paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg&safe=active

Chris Brown – Yeah x3

Avenue Q [Musical w/puppets]

The Jolly boys – Rehab

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZoImzA5iO4&safe=active