Initial Ideas!!

Song: The Maple State- Arguments

Lyrics: Arguments are always so much better with the strength of hindsight,
Like what i should have said, just what i should have said,
In the quiet of my room i can attack each pointless phrase just right,
But its never what i said
Well, i blame you for everything thats wrong with this town
Or i should blame him, for every stupid choice youve made

But your hair alone
And my way with words
Will have you out those clothes and staying with me tonight

But ive seen it all
And he's (such a liar?)
And seen you broken and defeated

Arguments are always so much better with the strength of hindsight,
Like what i should have said, just what i should have said,
In the quiet of my room i can attack each pointless phrase just right,
But its never what i said
Well, i blame you for everything thats wrong with this town
Or i should blame him, for every time he fucked you up and let you down

But your hair alone
And my way with words
Will have you out those clothes and staying with me tonight

But ive seen it all
And he's (such a liar?)
And seen you broken and defeated


See, I take it all back take it all back
Baby you know how I love my life
See, I take it all back take it all back
Baby you know how I love my life
See, I take it all back take it all back
Baby you know how I love my life
See, I take it all back take it all back
Baby you know how I love my life

But your hair alone
And my way with words
Will have you out those clothes and staying with me tonight

But ive seen it all
And he's (such a liar?)
And seen you broken and defeated

^^^The lyrics above are about a man who is kind of having a go at his girlfriend for sleeping with another guy but it is clear that he still likes and perhaps wants her. We will hope to show this in out music video. We will show this by the setting we choose, the casts costumes and make-up etc.

Setting: Set in a scrubby part of the coast; perhaps Old Hunstanton, Lowerstoft, Felixstowe...and making use of the sea front, arcades, kiokes etc.

Hopefully get there on a dull, cloudy, and overcast day to represent a miserable day to match the lyrics.

In the editing stage we could adjust the lighting of the footage to create a dull, grey and miserable look to represent the meaning behind the song.

Cast: band of 4 boys (singer, 2 base players, and a drummer), singers girlfriend, local people (tourists)

Costumes: band members in parkas and jeans (Oasis Liam Gallagher look), girl all dressed up in last nights clothes (scruffy)



Make-up: girl has running make-up (mascara) to show the sad emotions etc. Band members have scruffy hair.

Influences: We have looked at some artists videos that are within the same genre as our song to get techniques used in that type of music, but also other genres to get genral ideas and techniques.

An example of one of the videos that is in the same genre as our song is The Killers song Read My Mind;



Anothrt example of one of the videos from the same genre as our song is the Arctic Monkeys song A View From The Afternoon;



We also looked at other genre music videos just to get an idea and basic techniques of music videos. We thought that Kanye Wests single All falls down resembles a similae background story to our song;