Lyrics for Marching Band by Joe Brooks:
Notes on the band:
Joe Brooks is a UK singer-songwriter from Southampton. He's signed to Lava Records and has received media coverage based on his topping the UK Myspace charts. While unsigned, he gathered 12 million plays on Myspace which built up a strong Internet following. Brooks has a fan base that ranges from Europe to the United States. Tickets for his shows are currently being sold for 12 times their face value.
Treatment:
Our video mainly consists of a man grieving over the loss of his girlfriend. There are constant flashbacks, shown in black and white, of happier times with his girlfriend and imagining that she's still there. An example of this is in the scene when they're both sat on a bed, watching a film in black and white, then his girlfriend disappears and the colour changes from black and white to normal colour to show the transition between past and present. We allow the audience to come to their own conclusions about what happened to his girlfriend: whether she died or she's just left him for another person. He is also shown trying to deal with the grief by consulting in his friend, who just angers him even more because he doesn't understand. In the end, he decides that he can't cope anymore so he decides to end his own life with pills.
Set/Location details:
Most of the music video is set inside a house as we needed to show the main characters doing homely, couple-like things such as arriving home, watching a film or playing video games to convey their happiness when they were together. The scenes that were set in the present, when the boyfriend was by himself, were mainly located in the house to portray his feelings at losing his girlfriend. He was enclosed inside, which shows that he was bottling his feelings up. We then moved some locations outside to stop the video looking to cramped and isolated. This was shown when the boyfriend was walking along the street and miming to the words of the song. We wanted to show that he was now willing to open up his feelings to his friend, by being outside. A theme that was recurring in the music video is the theme of doors. This relates to the theme of death that was also present in the video, because we wanted to show that death could lead to doors opening to another life, or doors closing on living.
Shot List: Inside shots:
Shot 1: Tilt up from Kit's feet, and then back down again.
Shot 2: Panning shot of face.
Shot 3: Mid shot of Kit's face, singing.
Shot 4: Steady camera mid-shot, Kit get's up and out of shot.
Shot 5: Long shot in bedroom Kit storming in.
Shot 6: Mid-shot of Kit and Sarah in bedroom playing x-box.
Shot 7: Close up of two linked hands.
Shot 8: Long shot of two actors cuddling on the bed.
Shot 9: Close up of the two cuddling on bed, low angle close up.
Shot 10: Long shot of two actors walking towards the camera, holding hands.
Shot 11: Close up of hand dropping and pill bottle, with pill rolling.
Shot 12: Hand-held panning shot in bathroom.
Shot 13: Close up of actors face singing.
Shot 14: Hand held shots to portray anger and to build tension.
Outside shots:
Shot 15: Tracking backwards shot, hand held of Kit singing.
Shot 16: Long shot with interesting mise-en-scene, singing to song.
Shot 17: Hand held shots of Kit walking home.
Shot 18: Over the shoulder shot of Kit turning the key in the door.
Shot 18: Close up shot of door closing.
Shot 19: Close up of Kit's face singing.
Shot 20: Panning shot of two lads meeting eachother.
Shot 21: Mid shot of the two boys arguing and fighting.
Shot 22: Long shot of Kit walking home towards to gate and opening it.
Casting notes:
Kit Phillips
We cast Kit as our leading male because we know from past experience (working with him before) that he would give a great performance, he's hard working, determined to succeed and is very reliable. He's a very good looking guy who we believed would fit the role perfectly. The emotions we needed from our leading male were very raw and upsetting and we knew that Kit would be up for a challenge.
Sarah Cramp
Also, from past experience we knew that Sarah would not get irritated with her lack of being in the film and we knew that Sarah and Kit have great chemistry together and would be able to pull off being a couple deeply in love.
We also had a little cameo from our good friend Mark Farrent who is best friends with Kit in real life so we needed a strong bond between the two male characters and these two pulled it off exceptionally well.
Costume details:
We went for the casual but 'cool' look to show that our main character was an attractive, well dressed guy. However, because of the flashbacks in our music video, we needed a few outfits, although the change was subtle as all the outfits were similar, but fashionable.
He wore a leather jacket- black.
Neutral colours, nothing too extreme- blues and blacks.
He wore stylish blue jeans.
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