Meeting with Tranqua Lite

On Monday 30th October Rob met with Tranqua Lite band member Toby who we've been communicating with about the video. Rob went with a list of questions (written in my concepts blogpost) and also just to pitch our ideas to get their opinions and own ideas too. This is the feedback we got:

• They really liked our ideas, especially the Biffy Clyro inspired one with two storylines. They liked how this wasn't a stereotypical video and thought it would help them stand out. Therefore we have decided to go with this idea as the main body of our video. 
• They hadn't written the song with any particular person in mind but were inspired by their surroundings and the level of homelessness in Leeds, therefore they liked the idea of having an interview with an ex-homeless person at the start of the video. Therefore this is also something we're going to pursue and film to, again, make the video stand out from others of it's kind and also give it a bigger impact on it's audience. 
• They want to give the audience a view of their environment, all their ideas are based on their home town so they really liked the idea of filming it in Leeds. 
• The only slight problem we came across was that they like bright colours and their album cover is made up of them. Therefore they might be averse to our idea of presenting it in black and white. However, Toby said it might work as long as the colours are definitely seeped in at the end, even perhaps bringing in individual colours the band use to promote themselves such as blue and red. This is something we will have to discuss further with the band when we meet again. 
• They are rehearsing for the release of another single later this month and are using a recording studio in Leeds to do so. Toby invited us to the studio to film them performing the song which we could use as our music video within a music video. Although we originally though of doing a set up like the '4 5 seconds' video, this might be better as it's more in keeping with the genre conventions and is an amazing opportunity to use a professional set up in the video. We are going to see if we can meet them there on Monday to film the performance aspects of the video which is very exciting!