Our music videoShaun, Harry, Cameron, Jack

The song we have chosen• The song we have chosen is called ‘Suffolk Punch’ by a folk duo

called: The Broadside Boys.• The Broadside Boys are an unsigned band who originate from and

live in Suffolk. • The song ‘Suffolk Punch’ is about a good, honest farmer from Suffolk

who tends to get himself into a few fights at local pubs.• We chose this as there are a few references to places around the

Suffolk region and we thought it would be good to film there.• We also managed to get their permission to use their video via

twitter.

Plans for our video• We plan to make our song a mixture of both narrative and

performance based video. (mainly performance as this is what most folk videos are)

• After analysing the lyrics of the song we realised that we would be able to film in certain places (some hoping we get permission).

• For example: the song talks about Ipswich Town Football Club, so filming down Portman Road will be easy.

• They also name a few pubs around Suffolk, but we know a pub in which we could get permission to film in and pretend that’s the pub they’re on about.

Locations• A great place we could use is to film just outside of the Beagle. It is a pub, outside is fields where they have let the grass over grow

• We also plan to use the Belstead Brook as it also has had is grass overgrown and is surrounded by trees and we think would be a good place for the performance side of the video.

• For the filming of the pub, Pauls Sports club along Belstead Road has its main bar closed off after 9pm (weekdays) as Shaun is a member of the pub, we hope to get permission to film in there.

Our inspiration• After choosing the song, to help decide what would happen in our video, we did

some research on the biggest country and folk band in the world, at the moment: Mumford and Sons

• Most of their videos contains a mixture of performance and narrative.

• When it was performance based, all the band is together and all were playing their instruments. The lead singer is normally singing/ performing to the camera

• In the narrative side of the video, the band tend to be following the storyline of the lyrics and most of it would be in slow motion. There is normally some abstract features in the narrative side of the video. We will attempt to include some of these features in our video.

Star Image• Once again, to get an idea of what our star image would look like, we

turned to Mumford and Sons.

• As soon as you look at Mumford and Sons you can tell they’re a country and folk group by the way they dress. But they have modernised their clothing.

• But in contrast to Mumford and Sons, the artists of the song we are using, Broadside Boys, tend to wear more old fashioned and traditional country clothing. However they do have a modern theme, like Mumford and Sons

• So we want to be somewhere in the middle of the two. A mix of modern and traditional.

Recognisable• We want to add something in our video that people will recognise us

by.

• Just like Jay-Z does the triangle with his hands, we want to have camera shots of a beer called Broadside. This will act as a motif throughout the video.

• This is because: 1) The band who wrote the song are called Broadside Boys 2) The song is about a man at pubs 3) The beers is also made in Suffolk (Southwold), this links to the lyrics.

Props / Mise-en-scene• In all of the country an folk songs that we analysed, every single video had the instruments in. This makes the artists appear genuine.

• In the Broadside Boys, there are 2 members, they both sing, but only one holds the guitar. Luckily we have easy access to a guitar and will use it through-out the video to emulate other folk groups.

• We also plan to use the Broadside Beer (as shown in the slide before)

• The video talks about football and Ipswich’s rivalry against Norwich, so we plan to place in the video references to ITFC. e.g. a few people wearing the shirts.

• Also the video talks about pub fights (using bats, bottles and fists), so there will be a little bit of fighting using these items (but we won’t physically hit one another).

• They also mention about flat-back cap, this is a stereotype of Suffolk farmers. So we shall use theses.

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