The Pitch

Once our group had decided that we were going to produce a music video we were going to have to come up with a concept for the video, and first of all decide upon a song to use.


We came up with three different ideas for a music video using three different music videos.

We thought of a video to accompany the song Save It For The Bedroom by a band called You Me At Six.
The idea was that it would follow a band performing the song mixed with the narrative following a stereotypical house party, it would show scenes of dancing, kissing and with  most house parties include games. It was to focus on the ex girlfriend of the main character. The ex girlfriend is desperately trying to get back with her ex boyfriend (the main character) but he declines her advances when the stories of what she's been up to during their separation get back to him. We'd show scenes of the guys disgust when he's told by various people what she's done. The ex girlfriend becomes increasingly jealous when she sees the guy starts talking to another girl who's more respectable than her.

We also thought of an idea for the song Machines by the band Biffy Clyro.
The idea was to follow the tone of the song which was sad and seem to have a longing for a past love. The idea was about a young couple but the boyfriend is caught in accident and subsequently dies. The video follows the girl as she mourns for her past love by visiting his grave, crying herself to sleep and looking through photos of them and things he has given her. The video would be mostly narrative with intercut shots of the boyfriend playing on a guitar looking like ghost with the use of special effects.



After much discussion we decided we were going to use a song by Katy Perry, we decided against using a song which had already been released as a single from her album 'Teenage Dream' so we ended up choosing the song 'Not Like The Movies'.

After brainstorming we came up with the idea that it would involve a young couple who have broken up, we decided this by listening to the lyrics and matched our ideas to the music. The concept of the video was that the young couple have broken up. It follows the young girl looking back at the good times and the bad times and how they break up. We decided we'd make the video a mix of both performance and narrative as after research we realised that the majority of music videos follow this mix.