Initial Concept

Begins with opening scenic shot of car driving up to camera, cut to low angle shot as the car begins to break. Low shot of car door opening and person stepping out of the car and feet touching the ground (hasn't closed the door). Mid shot of actor slowly rising from the car, panning shot as other members get out of the car behind him and close their doors. Close - mid shot of first character extinguishing a cigarette and then closing the door, graphic match of car door closing cutting to a door opening and the band emerging and walking through.

Throughout there will be a narrative and a live action performance, which begins as them performing the song without an audience (monotone) which later bursts into colour as the live performance is shown to be in front of an audience. (much of which is inspired by Foo Fighters - All my Life and Jim Lockey- New Natives), the live action performance will consist of the band playing their song as normal, this will possibly include the monotone effect with certain colours highlighted such as band instruments or even beer cans etc or alternatively this section of the video is in full dynamic RGB colour. close ups of the bands expressions, mid shots of the band as a group, low dynamic shots looking up at a band member giving false perspective as shown by Greenday in American idiot. focus pulls on the drummer and main singer, focus shots on equipment etc. This will be done in a more dynamic manner with energetic camera movements, panning shots of the audience later in the video and possibly shaky cam.

Another scene we wish to include is inspired by Gascan Ruckus - Pieces, in this scene the camera will pan round the band playing, initially in an isolated monotone environment with no audience in a 360 degrees arc, as it passes a piece of equipment the screen is temporarily blacked out and as it emerges from the other side the equipment the band is now seen during live performance in full colour playing in front of an audience.

The narrative will focus on the band preparing for the live performance, beginning with the band entering the set via the aforementioned door, the band will begin to set up their equipment, stands, sets, amps and so on, they begin to tune their instruments etc. Cuts to outside members arranging the band where to stand and the crew can be seen on camera adjusting lighting and camera shots (this is to give the effect that this is the events that transpire before a live performance or gig - inspired again by the like of American Idiots opening shot). Throughout this narrative the band can be seen drinking and discarding the beer cans. After the live performance chronologically there is a mess left behind by the band, they begin to collect the discarded beer cans in a black bag which can be shown in a low shot behind the can as its lifted and a Point of view shot from the black bag looking up as the beer can descends. This is the order of chronological events:

- Car pulls up.
- Band enters set.
- Sets up equipment.
- Tunes instruments.
- Practice performance (no audience).
- Live performance.
- Cleaning set.

But the music video will not show these events occurring chronologically, rather they will be shown through crosscutting and splicing in between other cuts, this hopefully in the end with all piece together to show the audience the full range of events that have occurred throughout the video it a more engaging manner (inspired by the Scientist - Coldplay in which the video is played backwards - this may be a useful and engaging technique to use also).

Foo Fighters Background

The Foo Fighters emerged from the ashes of Nirvana, but the band's true roots lay in the years of personal recordings made by leader Dave Grohl. The former Nirvana drummer had played guitar and written songs since he was a Washington, D.C., teenager, while also playing drums in several hardcore bands. At 17, Grohl became the drummer for the veteran punk act Scream. In 1990 he joined Nirvana, but continued to work on his own material during breaks from the road and studio. After finishing Nirvana's Nevermind, Grohl returned to D.C. to record several tracks, which were released on the cassette-only Pocketwatch. Plans for another cassette release were shelved with Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide.

Later that year Grohl entered a studio with friend and producer Barrett Jones to record what would become the first Foo Fighters album. Grohl played all the instruments himself (with the exception of the song "X-Static," which featured guitar by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs). Though he had written and sung just one Nirvana song (the B-side "Marigold"), Grohl demonstrated a flair for pop hooks and driving guitar rock. (The name Foo Fighters came from what American World War II pilots called unidentified fireballs spotted over Germany.) Grohl signed with Capitol and formed a band in time for a 1995 tour, recruiting bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith from the freshly-broken-up Sunny Day Real Estate. Pat Smear, the former Germs guitarist who had joined Nirvana for its final tour, also joined.

Foo Fighters (Number 23) was released in 1995 and spawned the Modern Rock hits "This Is a Call," "I'll Stick Around," and "Big Me." Goldsmith quit during the making of The Colour and the Shape (Number Ten, 1997), the first Foo Fighters album recorded as a band, and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins (Alanis Morissette). The album contained the Modern Rock hits "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," and "Everlong." Smear quit and was briefly replaced by Franz Stahl (Scream) and then Chris Shiflett (No Use for a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), solidifying the lineup to date. Grohl relocated to Virginia and recorded There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Number 10, 1999) in his basement; the album included "Learn to Fly" (Number 13, 2000).

In 2001 the group began recording its fourth album in Los Angeles, but stopped before finishing. Grohl took a break from band-leading by getting behind the drums again for Queens of the Stone Age's 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Refreshed, Grohl gathered the Foos back together and re-recorded almost the entire album at his Virginia home studio, released as One by One(Number Three, 2002). The album further consolidated the band's place as the well-loved elder statesmen of alt-rock.

In 2004, Grohl released Probot, the self-titled side project featuring a number of vocalists from heavy metal legends, among them Lemmy Kilmister (Mot örhead), Snake (Voivod), King Diamond, and Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly). Later the same year, the Foos publicly backed John Kerry's presidential campaign, an endeavor Grohl said inspired the title of In Your Honor(Number Two, 2005), a double-CD featuring an acoustic disc and an electric disc. It featured the hit "Best of You"

Time-plan

September - Band and Style chosen: Car Chase City (a punk band with grunge and alternative rock influences), CD cover and website research.

October - December - Research and development (Punk), conventions and similar artists (videos)

January 2nd- 18th - Further expanded research in more detail of similar bands music videos for further influence.
January 19th - Chosen song mixed and finalised : Im Not Drunk (I'm just feeling a little strange).
January 20th - Update blogs with group ideas and concepts.
January 21st - Basic concept for music video conceived.
January 22nd - Expanding upon music video concept.
January 23rd - Finalising core template for music video.
January 24th - Updated blogs with time-plan, Prop-list, costume list, set/ location and actors.
January 25th- 28th - Shot List finalisation.
January 29th- February 3rd - Storyboard Finalisation.

February 4th - 10th - Animatic Finalisation.
February 5th - March 10th - Website research finalised, website completion.
March 11th - Filming (more or less) complete. (one more scene left to film at later date).
March 27th - Editing complete.
March 29th - Digipak complete.
March 30th - April 29th - Blogger work and Evaluation planning.
April 30th - Final scene filmed.
May 1st - Video finalised and Evaluation finished.

Props / Lighting / Costume / Actors and Location

Props:
-Music Equipment & Instruments:
    - Microphones
    - Guitars
    - Bass Guitar
    - Drum Set
    - Amps etc.
- Lights
- Car
- Beer cans (empty)

Lighting:
- Need a dark set supported with back lighting.
- Extra sources of artifical light placed at certain angles to elevate or remove casted shadows.
- Multi-coloured changing lights.
- Smoke Machine

Costume:
- Typical attire of band and Genre:
- Hoodies, Shirts, T-Shirts
- Jeans
- Converse

Actors:
- Band members : Gerard McCann, Phil Crean, Connor McCaffrey
- Possible outside members portraying crew members and the audience.

Location:
- A desolate/ isolated venue (possibly backstage - dark - no audience)
- A venue typical of where the band would play (bright and populated with an audience)
- Both areas will need to appropriately dressed for the different segments of the music video.

Representation in Media

'Punk rockers' are typically represented in the media as being extremely anti-establishment and rebellious, they are presented as being loud mouthed villains often racist in many cases and seem to only exist within the limits of the underground world. Other representations show them as graffiti vandals, skaters, bullies and being unemployed squatters. They are often associated with having colourful hair, typically mowhawks or spikes, torn clothing with chains hanging from studded jeans and having many piercings.

Typically punk rockers are presented negatively by the media, they are often associated with being the antagonist when represented in films and often as rioters or violent protestors on the news. The various sub genres of Punk often become mixed in the media and the stigma associated with certain groups is cast upon the others to create an overall negative representation of the genres and the fans itself. While promoting extensively anti-racism campaigns some punks still hold white supremacy views, its this minority that causes the stereotyping to be applied across the whole genre. Substance abuse seems to be very prevalent in their exposure via the media, often ending in vandalism or overdosing, this behaviour was promoted especially by early punk bands like the Sex Pistols.

These have created a negative stereotype associated with 'Punk Rockers', but in recent times a more positive representation of punk rockers has become slightly more prevalent in the media, but overall there seems to be a scarcity of representation of Punk rockers in the media in recent days.  This lack of representation creates almost a sense of exclusivity amongst the social group, and rather than the old stereotype of all punk rockers being underground as such in reality this is only a minority, furthermore the mystery and misdirection and misinforming negative stereotypes cast over the group creates further a sense of uniqueness and mystery which can be very appealing to many punk rockers, to be part of this mysterious social group.

With regards to direct targeting of punk rockers from the likes of album art or the music artists themselves they typically avoid all the negative elements associated with much of the genre, the stereotypes of being only violent protestors, vandals and such are typically not used but rather the elements such as spray paint graffiti, political references and such may be present when appealing to the audience as many share these cultural interests and ideals, yet when these are presented they are done with the interest of appealing to the target audience not typically with the interest to upset or target others negatively.

Punk Rockers when confronted with negative representation of their social group, ideals or cultural interests in the media (stereotypes and such) in media typically avoid the negativity presented to them. When represented positively in the media, many punk rockers tend to show their support and approval, this may be in various ways from the purchasing of CD's, downloads, mechanise, live concerts etc.

Cultural Interests

Punk/pop-punk is often associated with strong political beliefs, usual these political views are polar opposites often portrayed as far left or far right, and while the beliefs may of been  over simplified the general audience of punk/pop punk would have some political view or at least an opinion of political matters  which maybe  isn't to be expect of the genre who can often be portrayed as uneducated by the media, the audience would be very self-aware to the world around then and what is happening, punk also inspired a lot of art and fashion such as Vivienne Westwood as well as this art was inspired by punk with arts such as basquait also may early street artist where inspired by the attitudes of punk/pop-punk.    

Pop Punk Genre - History

The pop punk genre began in the 1970’s with the Ramones being considered one of the first bands to mix punk sounds with the pop genre. UK bands such as Buzzcocks and The Undertones began the movement of punk into the pop punk genre. 

By merging 60’s bubblegum pop with loud, fast-paced punk tunes the Ramones created a new sound that has been used as inspiration for many pop punk bands and has recently become a large musical genre due to Green Day and The Offspring bringing the movement into audience appreciation in the 1990’s.

Pop Punk, made it’s way into mainstream music in the early 2000’s succeeding the commercial success of Blink 182 and Avril Lavigne.

Upon the new decade, 2010, Pop Punk saw a decline in mainstream popularity giving way to new musical genres. This recent decile however has seen a sudden rise in Pop Punk popularity with Fall Out Boy and Paramore’s 2013 albums rising quickly to the top 10 spot and signifying the beginning of a renewal in Pop Punk popularity.

 The Ramones (1970’s pioneers)

 Buzzcocks (1970’s pioneers)

 The Undertones (1970’s)

Green Day (1990’s Rise)

 Offspring (1990s rise)

Fall Out Boy (2013 Revival)

Avril Lavigne (Early 2000s rise and 2013 revival)

Foo Fighters - Video Analysis

The Pretender

The floor, set, props, instruments, and lights are all white with a black trim. The only two colours present (the red background and Dave Grohl’s skin tone) are emphasised. This was a very unique style similar to the effect used in Sin City. Everyone is wearing all black. The lead singer is wearing a different colour shirt than the rest of the band. The red wall is used as an accent agains the black and white instruments and emptiness of the warehouse space. This video makes use of a live performance and a narrative. 

Walk 

Much like The pretender there is use made of a big open empty space which seems to be a common theme throughout their videos. Once again there are lots of blacks and dark colours and the main singer is wearing a different colour shirt than the band. In this video the band play all of the main characters in the story and it also includes a live performance as well as the narrative. A common theme observed between their videos is the idea of each band member (except the singer) as having many roles to play but one is always themselves, seen at the end of this video. 

Learn To Fly

This includes both a narrative and live performance. Once again the band play all characters in story and also like before the one aspect of themselves. 

Long Road To Ruin

In this, once again the band play all characters in story and it also includes a live performance but they don’t have an aspect of themselves. 

Everlong

This includes a live performance and a story and the band play all characters in story. The dreams are filmed in saturated colours where as the “reality” is filmed in black and white; this is unusual as in most editing it would be done the other way, however this helps the viewers differentiate between the dreams and reality scenes.

Best of You

This is all a live performance, performed in a big open space. there is sort of a narrative with images portraying a story but the band do not play characters. There is a quick location change to a different room and includes lots of emotional close-ups of the band focusing on the singer. 

Rope

This has a live performance in large empty room, where everyone is in dark clothes. There are once again lots of close ups on the singer but no story, with no characters. The walls begin to change colour to green, red and blue, returning back to The Pretender for a theme.