Inital Ideas Pitch

For my music video I am doing Teenagers by My Chemical Romance, my video will be a Narrative based Performance as I feel it follows the codes and conventions of this genre. I feel with a Narrative based Performance you are able to combine the two to create a more powerful video. I chose a song that wouldn’t restrict me as much as others so the concept of teenagers could be shot in more local locations.

            My video will feature themes such as boredom, rebellion and a hostile view towards school. It will mainly have an illustrative approach to it, but with some aspects of amplification using mise en scene with links to the song lyrics. The idea for our narrative follows a group of students who are rebelling from their day-to-day repetitive school life. The performance will be in the narrative, as they will be playing their instruments in the school area. There will be different locations for them to play and will be switching back and forth to performance and the students going about their business. The video will feature either a prologue or epilogue to bring the timing up to 3 minutes.

            The locations I will use will mainly be in the school, as that will create the best atmosphere. The opening scene will feature in a classroom before the students decide to destroy everything. When performing I will use a wide range of locations from the stage to smaller classrooms.

            For clothing, I want my actors to wear clothes that would make them stand out or not fit in, to help fit the idea of rebellion. I think having other characters in school uniform would help this idea as it would give the representation of breaking out of the normal life.

            My actors will preferably be a band as that will be most effective because I can use them for both the performance side and the narrative side of things. It doesn’t matter who the background actors are as long as they are teenagers or look like that age. I will like to include a few teachers, I want them to look quite dominating at first, but as the video goes on they will lose their power.