Pitch

we intend to make track 9 into a music video. our initial idea is that it starts with a group of people in a car, the car is upside down due to a car accident, everyone has physical injuries but they are still awake and have no expression. there was going to be a man in the car with blood on his face not moving but still awake, singing the lyrics.

here is more detail about how we came about it-

Cameron and I had to the idea of a car accident; we got this from the first and second verse “It's not that bad, we could have died” “No morning drive, No blurred headlight” I initially saw a man sitting still in a car, the shot would be a close up on his face and he would be beaten and bruised, the camera would then proceed to zoom out and you would realise that he has had a car accident, we then saw it as the man would either get out his car (still in a bad state) and walk around telling his story, or that his body would be carried away in an ambulance and then his spirit would stay and tell the story. After bringing this idea to the girls they agreed that it was good but felt that it would be hard to achieve all of this with the limited time and equipment that we had. They then put to us their pitch which was that a boy and a girl have a really good happy life and there is loads of cuts and shots of them having fun and then right at the end you find out at the girl dies, they got this idea from the line “Wouldn't I be more than livin' in your wake”. Cameron and I felt that this was a good idea, but very bland and a lot like many other music videos. We agreed to merge them both together and came up with our final pitch. Our final pitch employees some aspects of Cameron’s and my original idea and some of Hailey and Christina’s. The music video would start with a man and a woman (girl 2) in a car having an accident; it would then cut to the man who is in the accident singing the song whilst watching what has happened from the sidewalk, as though he is an onlooker. The story then maps out to show the memories that the boy and the girl (girl 1) have shared together. Towards the end it will show that the boy and girl 1 start to argue and that the boys perfect memories become tainted, it then goes on to show the boy storming off and going to the pub. At the pub he meets girl 2, she buys him some drinks and they proceed to get drunk together. After their ‘session’ in the pub we see them stumbling into the boys car. It then cuts back to the beginning scene of the boy and girl 2 sat in the car after the accident, in shock. The camera will then zoom out and you will realise that girl 1 is lying on the floor and that she has just been hit by the boy. We feel that this is a very good compromise between the two initial ideas, and that by putting them both together we have come up with a very good original pitch. There will be an emphasis on drink driving in our story which we hope will be conveyed well.

Some examples of music videos that have this which we got some inspiration form are-




This video Snow Patrol Chasing Cars- this does not show an injury but shows a man lying down with not expression on his face just singing.



This video Chasing Pavements by Edelle she shows a boy and a girl lying down on the ground as though they have just been hit by a car, they act normal, as though they are actually walking but really it is just their limbs moving flat on the ground like puppets.