Written Treatment

"Frenzied eruption of raw rock culture"

The plot for our music video starts with the band sitting at home. We show their lives to be fairly mundane and average. One member of the band inherits a large sum of money. This changes the dynamic of the group’s life. The man who inherits the money promptly drives to pick up the members of the band as the music begins (Each band member enters car in sync with the music and their instruments which they bring with them). Now The plot halves into the performance shots of the band practice after they arrive in the car. The other half which will be cross-cut in and out of the band members spending their money in extravagant ways. Such as gambling, partying, after purchasing expensive clothing. The two halves melt back together after the party has finished and the band finds they have no money just like the beginning. They pick up their instruments once again and the music cuts out just as they begin to play.

We were influenced to a certain extent by the film Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.We thought the poker scene in the film was really well composed and works well with the music. Our poker scene will be based very closely to the style of this.

We are taking on the style of a monochrome film. This will be used to bringout a certain colour which will be chosen to emphasise a certain mood by using colour connotation. This is similar to the scene in 'Schindler's List' with the single red coat.

The film Rock n Rolla has good use of lighting in it which will influence how we light our own video. The use of dark to light contrasts creates connotations of moral ambiguity and looks startling.

For the performance elements in our music video our main influence is the style of Kasabian – Underdog. The slightly slowed down performance shots carry across a lot more passion.