Pitching our Music Video Idea

So today we pitched our Music video idea to our media studies class in order to gain some audience feedback about the basic idea structure.

Our main idea is to do a long music video, much like the original 'Wake me up when September ends'. We will have a narrative running alongside shots of the band playing in a derelict barn. The narrative will focus on one man, who has killed someone and is now running away from home, leaving his family behind in order to get away from the army who are looking for him.

We originally had the idea of him being an innocent man but had to commit a crime for a secret agency against the government. i.e killing someone.

The shots may then flick back to his family, and leaving them behind.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

Positives:

• Good Narrative
• Liked the tension from the idea of 'Has he killed someone or not?'
• Loved the idea of the band playing in a broken barn.

Negatives:

• Too complicated - may not make sense to the audience - might be too much going on?

This feedback was incredibly useful to us, helping the two of us to be realistic about our ideas.

We began thinking how we could keep the tense possibility that he has killed someone, but in a less complicated way. So we came up with the powerful idea that our main protagonist would be dealing with post-traumatic stress from being in the war and struggling with the idea that he has killed someone - making it harder for him to deal with everyday living, so he runs away. He thinks the army is after him, and at the end they catch him in the woods surrounding him. This would also give us a fantastic ending which will leave the audience wondering if it was all just in his mind, or if he really was in trouble with the army.

For our first set of audience feedback, it was fantastic to pitch our ideas and get opinions of them from a realistic view and from young people who will make up a massive part of our target audience.

When thinking of ideas together, you can sometimes get carried away and too excited over particular ideas and all it takes is to get further opinions to help settle ideas and discard others.