DIRECTORS PITCH - THE 1975, ROBBERS

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Directors Pitch

By Amy Crouch and Alyssa Chhotu

+Song

We have chosen this song because constructing a music video

to the indie rock genre is what we have been researching, this

means we know the conventions so we will be able to include

them into our music video.

We have also chosen it because we enjoy the song and have

been able to thought-shower numerous amounts of ideas and

themes for the narrative.

+Evidence of E-mailing Production

Company for Permission

+Storyboard/Narrative

+Storyboard (1)

+Indie Rock Mood Board

+Shooting Schedule

Day/Date Shot

Descriptions/Summary

Characters Equipment/Special Requirements

27/09/14 Shot 1: POV Shot –

Walking down the road.

Alyssa -

27/09/14 Shot 2: Pan of the town as

a long shot to establish

settings.

- Tripod

27/09/14 Shot 3: Medium shot of

cars driving through town

centre.

- Tripod

27/09/14 Shot 4: Another shot of

walking. This time towards

the bench

Alyssa Bench

27/09/14 Shot 5: Close up shot of

the magazine turned to the

page of Amy’s face.

Alyssa (holding the

magazine).

Magazine needs to be constructed with article

and picture of Amy to ease identification.

28/09/14 Shot 6: Over the shoulder

shot of Alyssa on the

bench showing peoples

feet as they walk past her.

Alyssa Bench

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Day/Date Shot



28/09/14 Shot 7: The magazine is

open, a medium close up,

of the picture of Amy on

Alyssa’s lap as she looks

at it.

Alyssa Magazine.

28/09/14 Shot 8: From the previous

shot, we pan up from the

magazine, to show the girl

in the magazine, Amy,

walking past with shopping

bags in her hand.

Amy Shopping bags.

29/09/14 Shot 9: Medium shot

following Amy as she walks

down the street, continuous

from previous shot, leaving

the boy character behind.

Amy Tripod

29/09/14 Shot 10: The boy

character, Alyssa, following

her down the road.

Alyssa -

04/10/14 Shot 11: Establishing shot

of the house/long shot.

- House.


Amy going into her house. .

Amy House

04/10/14 Shot 13: Point of view shot

from Alyssa’s perspective,

walking down the road.

Alyssa -

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04/10/14 Shot 14: Through the

window this shot will be

filmed, long shot of Amy

picking up a guitar.

Amy Guitar and tripod

05/10/14 Shot 15. Through the

window again, Amy playing

the guitar.

Amy Guitar and tripod

05/10/14 Shot 16: Alyssa going to

knock on the door that Amy

had previously entered.

Alyssa Tripod

05/10/14 Shot 17: Alyssa running

away from the house,

Medium shot.

Alyssa -

26/09/14 Shot 18: Long shot of a

school table with Amy

surrounded by her friends

whilst laughing.

Amy and friends School table.

26/09/14 Shot 19: Amy showing the

group a picture or a letter.

Amy and her friends Letter/photo

26/09/14 Shot 20: Amy putting the

picture/letter in the bin.

Medium shot.

Amy Letter/photo

26/09/14 Shot 21: Close up of the

paper in the bin to show

the writing

- Letter and bin.

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Alyssa putting up pictures

of Amy in a dark room.

Alyssa Pictures of Amy

11/10/14 Shot 23: Pan shot of the

pictures as they go up

- Pictures of Amy

11/10/14 Shot 24: Different angles of

pictures that have been

stuck up onto the wall.

- Pictures of Amy taped onto the wall

11/10/14 Shot 25: Alyssa sticking

pictures of Amy on the wall.

Alyssa Pictures of Amy


Alyssa backing away from

wall of pictures of Amy

Alyssa -

11/10/14 Shot 27: Alyssa surveying

the wall by sitting down,

long shot to show the

photos as well.

Alyssa Chair

+Props

A magazine with Amy’s face in it for the first few shots. This is

because the line “she had a face straight out a magazine” is

used and in the relationship between visuals and lyrics is a

common feature in the genre.

A guitar. There is always instruments being held or played in

the genres music video.

A note.

Pictures of Amy to stick on the wall.

+Costumes

Many music videos in this genre have had the male

characters/artists in plain clothing that is usually black or white.

We will use this in our own music video and Alyssa will be in all

black clothing to also foreshadow that her character isn’t the

protagonist in this music video.

Also the female character usually wears feminine colours and

to emphasise the fact that she is the desirable girl in this music

video, she will be wearing girly clothing.

+Actors/Cast

For the cast we have decided to use only ourselves. This is because we know we will be dedicated to making it as good as it can be and also it means we don’t need to depend on other people outside of our group.

We have used a female lead as it is common in indie rock music videos as Goodwins theory of « the notion of looking » is featuredmultiple times in these videos, therefore it will help us establish ourselves in the genre. It has been used in videos such as The Black Keys – Tighten Up and The Killers – Shot at the Night

For the male lead Alyssa will play the character. This is becasuethe shots used for this character are either point of view shots or are from behind to hide the identity.

+Locations

Our first location is in Crick. Lots of music videos in the indie

rock genre are based in urban environments, however, to

challenge the convention, we are setting it in a rural area.

There will still be people around and it will remain relatively

busy but the place will be more green-spaced.

The idea of a more urban environments being developed into

rural has been used in indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club

– Sleep Alone, where there are shots based in forests and

Franz Ferdinand - Stand On The Horizon which is based on the

coast.

+Locations (1)

Our second location will be based in school. This is because a

lot of indie rock music is for teenagers therefore the artists base

the music video in relatable backgrounds.

This has been shown in music videos such as Nirvana – Smells

Like Teen Spirit, The Ramones – Rock & Roll High School and

Nada Surf – Popular.

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