Adding A Narrative.

With the possibility of adding a narrative now looking feasible i have thought of the following idea. My idea for adding a narrative involves the music video that we have filmed being watched on a TV by a small group of people preferably female, as if the music video is actually being watched by and audience of fans/ viewers. The basic plot is that there is a living room with a sofa, table and television in 50's England to keep it in theme with the video and to have a continuous time frame and aesthetic feel. The group of people will all rush into the living room heckling such things like, "it's on" "turn it up" suggesting that The Harmonettes are extremely popular and world famous. When the video begins on the TV the people begin to get excited and the camera pans into the television for it to then be shown like an original video. When it finishes the camera cuts back to the living room to the audience staring at the TV in silence with a stunned look on their face. A slight pause lingers before the group scream and heckle with excitement that they have seen The Harmonettes video for The Shoop Shoop Song in homage to the sort of scenes you get at behind the scenes footage of live shows where screaming girls line the walkway to the stage entrance.

Here are some examples of similar work that has inspired me for this section of the video.





What i like about these videos and what id like to use our narrative if we do film one is how detailed the mise-en-scene is, however this will be difficult for us to do. I also like in both of these videos the audience/ characters or even both are viewing something of a performance. The audience of the OutKast video are shown watching a television as part of the production and then the video cuts to the performance. Also in the Hairspray video we can see two of the characters watching the Corny Collins Show in television and racing to get home to finish their viewing. I want to re-create this notion of watching the performance as an outsider and then being brought into it. In our production i want to use it as a narrative tool where the viewers can be brought away from the performance to view the narrative. I also want to use the narrative as a way to introduce the performance based part of the video.

[UPDATED]
We did decide to add the narrative after lengthy discussions about the positives and negatives in doing so and also taking into account comments from audience feedback. One difficulty we had was sourcing a authentic 1960's television set so we opted to use a radio instead we can achieve the same effect but just by hearing the song and then being introduced to the performance, plus i was able to source a 60's transistor radio.