How we overcame our problems

After realising that the gig was not such a good idea after all we had to come up with a similar solution that meant Emily was still listening to our band but on a much smaller scale. As a group we then came up with the solution to have Emily run away from home and go to a friend's party where our song would be played on some speakers. 

Problems With Initial Ideas

The one big problem that arose after coming up with our initial ideas were that we realised only one member of our group knows how to play an instrument, nor do we know anyone that could play the other instruments. 
Another problem was that we couldn't get a big enough venue to hold our gig with the budget available and were unsure how we could get so many people to watch us in such a short space of time. 
This meant that the gig idea was not look promising. 

Mind Map

This is a mind map summarising our ideas that we created when first listening to the track 'Seventeen Candles'.

Influential Videos

This is the first of our influential videos. It is by a band called called 'Architects' and is of a rock genre similar to our song. The things that we really liked about this video is the location, colours and clothing/costumes used. 

This genre this music can be categorized into isn't relevant to our genre but we get a feel of the loneliness that we would like to show in our video. The clothing is relevant as the clothes are quite shabby and often there is scenes where a backpack is shown like we would like to show in our video. 

Our last video is by another similar band 'Lostprophets' the performance scenes are like what we will like ours to be like and the general theme of rebellious teens is also present. 

Moodboard

This is a moodboard that we created and used when pitching our ideas to the audience, it is made up of images from other music videos such as 'A team' 'Rooftops' 'Heartburn'. These are songs not necessarily from bands similar to ours but we feel that they are relevant to the feel we will attempt to create in our video. There are also images such as the candles that are particular to our video. The main aim of this moodboard in the pitch was to create and idea of our video without going into too much detail, hopefully keeping the audience interested without boring them.

Initial Ideas

Our first choice is 'Seventeen Candles' by 'Pink Spiders'. 
After looking through the lyrics and putting meaning to words we have come up with concepts that we would like to include in our video that are both fulfilling of the lyrics and that are relevant to the stage of our lives we are currently in. This stage we are referring to is commonly known as the'rebellious' stage. The particular lyrics that suggest this stage or attitude are: 


- 'Everybody's cool with the "I don't care".'
- 'That she believes she's a bit old for cake and gifts and party favours'
- 'Then i'm packing up my Shit and i'm gone'


As well as this there are constant references to acts that would be seen as 'wrong' to the more mature adult, such as smoking and drinking alcohol underage.
The lyrics also clearly stated that the girl in focus - Emily, was clearly turning seventeen. 
We thought that this would be a good way to show her turning against her parents and doing something that she wants to do for a change as oppose to what her parents want her to do. 'She believes she is a bit old for cake and gifts and party favours'.
We thought that a gig would be a good way to show this and since this is a music video, it could be our gig that she comes to watch after running away from home.


To summarise, our idea was to have a rebellious teenage girl - Emily, on her seventeenth birthday running away from her parents and their 'Gifts and Party Favours' and going to a rock concert/gig.