Our Second Idea

I was a big fan of Rob's idea however we needed to incorporate the band in order to meet the genre conventions of indie rock and to 'introduce' them to the industry as this is their first official video. Therefore we started trying to come up with ideas of how to bring them more seamlessly into the video rather than just cutting between a narrative and a studio recording. These ideas included having the homeless person walking past houses and seeing the band perform on the TV through the window. I suggested a way of further involving the band would be to have the homeless person sleeping outside the venue where they're performing, therefore having them listen to the band's music, possibly even beginning the song as diegetic sound before launching into the rest of the video.

When I went away to think about it I came up with the idea of having the band actually as the homeless people busking on the street. We could then follow the story of them getting help and finally end the video with them performing at a gig. This way we can incorporate the narrative of homelessness, promote the idea of helping to reduce it and give a lot of screen time to the band and performance as well as creating an uplifting video for the audience. This would rely on whether the and would be comfortable being so involved in the narrative.