Inital Group Ideas

The Group!

Now that we have decided our groups, in class Beth, Calum, Fin and I began researching more into the sort of songs and narrative paths we wanted to go down.

Fin and Calum have already created an idea for the song Fitzpleasure by Alt-J. We have expanded on the idea as a group. However, I feel a difficulty we might face is that both the song and band are very current and it may be hard to come up with an original image and idea. The idea is that an old man walks around in his head which is represented by a room with different pieces of his memory suspended from the ceiling. When the man looks at each object he is transported back in time to that memory when only a snippet is revealed. Then, there is a twist in the narrative, which turns all the expectations of the memories into their cruel reality.At this point in time we were thinking that all the memories could be based around his relationship with his wife, and the memories are of the significant points in their relationships, such as: first date, wedding day, a romantic evening. And the twist could be he comes across an object that reminds him of a bad encounter, and suddenly the audience are revealed the truth behind the relationship, which was it wasn't a fairytale love story, but a normal relationship that had its flaws. This could be shown through shots of them fighting etc, and the song Fitzpleasure is has good parts in the track that reflect that atmosphere.

The Band:Alt - J

One of the problems the group are considering is that because our idea is so heavily narrative based that we might be throwing ourselves so far into the deep end that we may not produce the best of music videos. So we may start to think about how to simplify the idea and make it slightly more artsy with some movement from the characters.