Director's Pitch

Props:
Performance shots- Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drumkit, and Microphones/Stands. I thought that if we used larger amplifiers it would make the band appear more like it's performing live to a larger audience.

Narrative Props-
Props- Mobile Phone, Forest's Car, Beer bottles
Costume- Suit and glasses for "Father Figure", Baloon boobs, skirt, and blouse for "Mother figure", the band will be dressed as you'd see bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182 in their music videos- Namely punky T-shirts, hoodies and jeans. Neighbour Bob should have a pull over and large glasses, (With combover hair).

Locations: For the shots of the protagonist driving away shots around Welford outside our shooting location (Forest's Gran's house) will be used. The house has a large living room we can use for the performance shots, as well as other large areas we will need for the shots of the parents being outraged at the music levels.

Cast:



We thought that it would be a good idea to choose cast members that looked similar and already looked like they belonged in a punky video, that way no preparation would be needed before shooting making them look different. We also thought that it would be a good idea to have a cast of musicians to decrease the risk of losing the on-beat-editing potential of the video. With that in mind, Jake, Myself, and Taliesin (Right to left) were the best choice. Tali and I were also willing to dress as the parents and feature in the Narrative aspects of the video whilst Jake would be the protagonist as their child.

Luckily Forest and I aren't without friends and so the large audience that will be featured in the film will be an assortment of friends. I had the idea of shooting the audience shots before any others, that would mean that we wouldn't have a large group of people around whilst we tried to film the rest of the Performance and Narrative Shots.

Pitch:

• The Video will begin with a close up of the lead singers guitar, strumming to the rhythm of the first small guitar rif. 
• Immediately afterwards the video will switch to a Narrative and show the Protag and his friends sitting in the lounge with a friend passed out on the floor (Which is a line in the lyrics)
• The mother figure then returns from the task she was not in the house to do, the cast hear her, and make a break for the door and the car, and run past "Neighbour Bob" looking lustfully at them. 
• There will then be a flashback of the Protag sitting on his bed recieving a text that says something along the lines of "Last night was amazing" etc. I had the idea of perhaps during the editing to show this, instead of using subtitles to show the text message, we should imitate what the T.V series "Sherlock Holmes" does, and have the text message floating above the phone after the protag picks it up.
• Cut to performance shots, close ups of Jake, Myself, and Tali performing etc.
• Cut back to Narrative, Protagonist walks into the house with the friends  from before looking rough (As if they've just returned from a party). They are greeted by Tali and I in out Parents costume, and are very angry. Close ups of us shouting into the camera, and close ups also on one of the friends cheeks- "It will have a lipstick kiss on it)
• Cut back to more Performance footage
• Protag then confront his parents again, this time alone. They are shouting at him again, and there will be shot reverse shots of the parents and the protags reaction, emphasis on his clenched fist.
• Cut back to Performance again, this time using edgy awesome shots.
• The parents will then be shown banging on the walls of the lounge where the band is performing, they then give up, and walk away in a big huff.
• Cut back to edgy performance shots again
• End of the video will be a montage of shots of outtakes, and "bloopers" from the making of the video. We were told that we could do this so long as we could find a few examples of it being done within the genre- with that in mind, here are a list of Punk music videos with the end featuring bands acting crazy together and the outtakes from the making of the video.

Fat Lip - Sum 41
Nice Guys Finish Last - Green Day
The Rock Show - Blink 182

Justification-
How does this video reflect the Genre you have chosen and your band image?
As I explained in my Genre Research- Punk is more of an attitude than an actual style of music, it challenges most forms of authority, as seen with the British old stlye punk- A lot of songs challenged the Government, but nowadays in American "Modern" rock, the "authority" tends to focus more on parents. With that in mind we based our entire video around a child, in the Modern Punk target audience age rebelling against his parents. We decided to dress our band much like how Sum 41 and Blink are dressed when they feature in their videos, also the idea of having members of the band playing the parent figures is very typical of the Punk Videos.

Here is also the Draft Video for the Final Product, the decided to use models, (or in this case, Lego men) to portray the characters and to simply move them around according to the storyboard.