Planning music video

To try and incorporate the actual subject matter of the song into our video, we need to use the school setting. To do this we can try a number of things that would look effective but require a fair amount of planning. One idea we have is to try and direct a whole year 7 or 8 year group to perform an action or actions, which we would record and use to cut in between our band shots. The prime time to do this would be in one of their year group assemblies. We will have to talk to their head of year to confirm this and make sure that the actions we will ask them to perform are safe and that it doesn't cause chaos and disrupt the assembly.

Another thing we want to try and organise is to have the band walking through a number of different subject classrooms, such as maths, science, art, etc, performing some of the actions that are mentioned in the song. I would want these shots to be symmetrical within the frame, with Tom in the middle and Mark and Filip on either side of him performing the actions. We originally wanted to have younger kids in the classrooms as well but this may be very difficult to organise so we are going to use empty classrooms instead.

We will film some shorter shots to cross cut to between the band shots. These will be mostly close ups of objects or some actions, such as a cup hitting someone's head when the song says "Back of the head with a plastic cup" for example.