Initial Ideas

1. Continue with the Preliminary


The first idea we had was to simply build on our preliminary idea and improve it. Originally we thought that perhaps we could re-use some of our footage from our original piece, but upon discussion and review, felt that it would not be worth it and we needed to create more substance and narrative.

From this, we created a slightly new idea, sticking with the same song and actor. Our idea was that Toby (our actor) would be in a boring lesson and he begins to daydream about a world in which he is a superhero and needs to save the land. Along the way he meets his friends (that we see in the classroom) who lead him to a sort of boss battle in a tower; the boss being the evil teacher we saw in the classroom. Toby wins, his friends chant his name. This creates a sound bridge from the dream back to reality where we see it is really the teacher calling Toby's name to try to get his attention.



This idea did not go ahead as we could not gather nearly enough extras for the video, despite numerous efforts.





2. Change Our Idea Completely


Our second plan was to change our idea and move away completely from our preliminary task. This next idea was to focus on visuals and aesthetics, people driving through fog etc. We wanted it to be downbeat, mellow - the complete opposite of our preliminary. We then thought it might be easier to create if we have some sort of a narrative, we came to the idea of blurred lines between reality and the imagination. We thought that again, we could use Toby and he could be playing with toy cars and making them crash or playing with action figures and making them fight. Then, somewhere in the world, the car crash and the fight is happening. This idea would carry a strong message about the world we live in.


This idea did not go ahead as we knew that finding a song would be extremely difficult and we wanted it to look professional - not just cross cuts. We weren't sure how well we could do this, particularly with our lack of editing skills.




3. The Idea we have Now

We moved on from this idea of blurred reality onto dreams. We completely jumped away from the idea of music videos to short films. We got thinking about the idea of a 'mockumentary' and all the possibilities and clichés we could play with. Originally, we thought about the idea of a man thinking that he is stuck in a dream. However, from that we thought it would be interesting if a man had had a dream when he was younger and he has spent the rest of the life searching for a specific person he has seen in that dream. He becomes obsessive, and it affects his whole life, his relationships etc. We are looking to include interviews with his friends and family and also a psychologist.


The idea will follow a short part of the man's day - a sort of Louis Theroux type documentary.