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Upon our second chat with Luke our ideas started to change and develop again. We started to look at making the video more childlike and playful then go down the serious route. We thought about the possibility of cutting the set in half (shrinking it) and making the whole band bent over and struggling to play the instruments, with the possibility of making it look like a playhouse. We also decided that we wouldn't use the adult version and the younger version in the same shots together as it may start to look like they were brothers and not indeed the older and younger version of each other. Upon discussion we started to backtrack and think of our other ideas that we had before, we went back to the idea of using the teddy bears as the rest of the band and make it look like the young singer has made it all up in his head.

we then decided we need to come up with 12 scenes as to what a young boy would think being a singer is like. We are yet to come up with the finale 12, but some ideas to start off with are; him holding a giant crayon and having massive contracts falling from above him, hundreds of girls screaming and throwing sweets at him.

Our video hones in on and emphases the exploitative nature of the music industry. To portray this we chose to use a child actor to play the lead singer of the adult band who’s adult self is later revealed to the audience. To do so we chose the topics of; loneliness, substance abuse and invasion of privacy.This would be done with shots i.e., showing him in his dressing room alone and being made to sign several pictures of himself. Along side narrative the performance aspect of our video will play a key role in showing the juxtaposing fun side of the music industry. This would be done using quick shots, with high energy performers. Harvey would be on a block so he is of the same height as the rest of the band. In-conjunction to the narrative and performance element, our third aspect of the video is conceptual. The adult and child (lead singer) are seen painting on a large white screen wearing overalls. The end picture they make shows both of them with there backs to the camera holding hands. The picture would be made up of hand prints of different coloured paint.

When my group presented our pitch we had quite positive feedback. The idea was liked but needed to be in more detail in terms of thinking about set, costume and lighting. We were told we needed to be clearer on the scenes/ locations the band will be performing in or the narrative will occur in so that we knew exactly what will happen where and when and we can plan further. To do this my group will plan together exactly what will happen and what we need to allow this to happen. We were told it might be hard working with children but using a child that does professional acting work would be great for the job. We will plan what is going to happen at each point of the song so that we have enough film to cover the length of the song and we know what set and how many actors we will need in the music video.

Target Audience for The Kristal Kicks

Our Demographic audience which would be the ideal consumer for our band is an audience around the age of 15-17. The band will focus on pulling in an audience of girls with their image because girls tend to have a larger want for all male bands and there are many girls which enjoy listening to this genre of music. Physiographically our audience will be people who are really interested in music, especially indie/ alternative, new bands. They would consume music mainly by streaming or watching music videos on sites like youtube. They would be an audience who frequently go to gigs and listen to Radio stations that play more music than just the songs in the charts. An example of a station they might listen to is Radio 1.

When thinking about the Institution which would best represent our band, we searched for successful independent record companies. Below is the record company that I have found that I think would best represent the band

There are a few videos that have similar aspects or ideas. It is great to see how these ideas look in action and how successful they are.

Carly Rae Jepsen- I Really Like You.



In this video, Bill Murray is lip syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen. This is effective because It is a voice you would not expect in older man like him to have. I think is is successful and adds a sense of comedy. The fact that he is an extremely famous actor makes it even more successful. This idea links to ours because we are going to be using a young boy (around the age of 10) to be singing a song with a voice which is more mature.

Haribo Starmix Advert


Similarly to the video for "I Really Like You", the Haribo Starmix advert uses adults with children's voices, acting like children. We would use this idea but in the opposite way by using a young Boy but with him acting like an adult, imitating the lead singer.

One Direction- Kiss You


This behind the scenes style music video relates to our idea of showing our band behind the scenes (on set) and in places like the dressing room and recording studios. This is effective in this One Direction video because it shows how genuine/organic the band looks and gives the audience a sneak peak of how they act on set and how they always mess around and have great relationship with each other.

Stone Sour- Song 3


Lastly, the music video for this song also gives an insight of the behind the scenes. It shows the band performing alongside the process they go through getting ready. In my groups idea, we wanted to show the process in a similar way but with the young child being treated like how the singer is in this video.

 Our final choice is: Dancing Song, Little Comets



We believe that this is a great song to cast a young band for. The positive energy and fun lyric would be great to work with alongside a youthful cast. It is a good song to dit rhythmically to and I believe a great narrative and performance element could be put together to create a successful music video.

After searching for a great song to do a music video from a band that was new and undiscovered was very hard. The main place that we used to search for this music was Spotify. This allowed us to see the popularity of the band and the song and we were able to look through the older albums to find songs that would work with our ideas. The songs we narrowed it down to were:

New Blood- Zande Wolf

Dancing song- Little Comets


  One night in October- Little Comets




Panic like Tom- Ricas


Still counting-Volbeat

Heres a list of the potential names for the band:

• The Loop Holes
• Cosmic Universe 
• Theory of Hazard
• Without League
• Darlings of your Radio 
• Psychic Amateurs
• The Kristal Kicks 
• The Atmospheric Difference
• The Crystal Images

Soundcloud:
and Spotify:

Robin Loxley's song genres are a variety of Dance/Electronic, Rock, Country and Hip-hop/Rap. Jay's main focus is on Rock. Likewise to Raphael Lake and Ben Fisher, their identities remain unknown. This proves that they are all about the music and just want to share it with their audience without the publicity.

Everything Everything is a band with members Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Alex Robertshaw, Michael Spearman and Alex Niven. The genre of music the band plays varies between: Art pop,
Art Rock, Indie Rock, Electronica and Experimental pop.

When you type the bands name into google their wikipedia page comes up.

Similarly when you look on google images the images are filled with photos of the band.

They are with RCA Records, Geffen Records and Cult Records.
They are on Spotify:

Youtube:

Soundcloud:

 their albums are available to buy:

 and they have their own website:


The members of the band are always together in photos so that there is not a focus on just the lead singer. The photos of them tend to have a sense of symmetry and angles yet are simplistic. It is nice that the band feature audio recordings of what their latest album was influenced by on the website, this shows that their music has a lot of meaning.

Raphael and Ben Fisher are quite unknown Artists. Their music feature on Spotify and Soundcloud amongst other Similar artists. They don't have their own personal accounts that they post from. Their songs are posted within albums/ playlists or by other people. For example, on Soundcloud for example, an account has posted their music but it is neither of the members in the song.