Our idea that we have decided with!

We decided to go with Beth's idea with the song 'Strangers are harder to see in the dark'.

The idea is: 
As this song is very upbeat there will be a lot of fast paced shots. There will be a guy in London or somewhere on the street busking with a guitar or another instrument. When the singing first starts it will be a close up shot of his face. He will be selling things to try and get money from the public, he hasn't had a great life and had ended playing and selling things on the streets but he comes across as quite dodgy and people try and avoid him before they know what a nice person he is.

There is a certain girl who walks past him every day to and from work, who he is very keen on, and a shot which shows this will link in with the lyrics 'he's got his eyes set on you'. When they say 'strangers are harder to see in the dark' our idea is that this girl never notices him at all, as he is dressed in dark clothing and is always in the corner or on the side of somewhere. He is metaphorically in the dark as he is a stranger to her. One day he tries to follow her home, but feels that it is a bad idea, so he turns back around to spot another man like himself stealing his guitar and running off with it.

Throughout the instrumental of the song there is a long chase. He doesn't catch up so he slumps on the floor and picks up an old can of beer on the pavement and takes a swig, creating the relationship with the lyrics 'sitting in a bar and minding your own, chilling out sipping your Stella' - this is his equivalent.

In the morning he then spots the man with his guitar up against a wall smoking, the girl walks past him and he touches her. The guy then gets up, runs after them, stops and looks at her, looks back at him but he's gone, then is hit around the head with his guitar by the man. The girl then turns around and finally notices him.

Throughout this song there will be elements of performance with shots of the actual band performing, all fresh and clean, the complete opposite of the character in the story.





What I thought of this idea:
I thought that instead of the busker selling things which would go with the lyrics, he should be selling his music and it be a metaphor of this.