Our Fourth Idea

When we were all together talking we began to combine our ideas, linking them together to create something really interesting to watch yet still powerful and closely lined to the band's intentions.

We thought it would be interesting to start the video at the end, having the band playing in a venue and then doing a 180 degree turn to face the audience (so the band are now behind the camera) and having the lead signer stood in the audience watching. We would have to do this by stitching two shots together and hiding the cut in the spin. In this movement we would've moved from the future (the end of the video) into the past (the start of the video). The lead signer could walk out of the venue and go and spend the night on the streets. We could then combine this with my idea to make up some of the body of the video - having him busking to make money either with the rest of the band or having the other members make cameos throughout the videos (this is common in other music videos such as the Biffy Clyro 'Biblical' one). Then the video would continue chronologically until we reach the end where the band are playing in the venue where the video started showing where they came from and where they got to.

Tranqua Lite also sent us through an early demo for the song. They said it was much longer and slightly slower than the final version but it gives us an idea of the tone and lyrics of the song. One of the biggest things we noticed was the bird imagery, particularly magpies (giving us the idea for our 'company name'). We thought we could incorporate this into their video by having recurring bird imagery e.g. designing a bird silhouette and having that appear on things throughout the video e.g. on a band member's jacket, on his guitar, on the cup he's using to collect money etc. We thought we could even extend this to be the image behind the title of the song which could appear at the start of the video. Furthermore, magpies have very superstitious connotations e.g. one for sorrow two for joy. We thought we could play on this, having a single magpie as the first shot of the video and two magpies as the final one. However, his would be difficult as it would be a challenge to try and find and film magpies. But this is definitely an idea we could play around with.
We thought we could also use the bird imagery in different, subtle ways e.g. having feathers throughout the video or references to wings or diegetic tweets every now and then, just in the background as much of the narrative will take place outside.