Fast fuse inspirations

My initial idea was for a song called ‘Fast Fuse’ by a band called Kasabian. My idea consisted of a dual narrative, cross cutting between a band performing the song in an isolated enclosed setting and a journey of a male, potentially the lead singer travelling through urban streets reflecting a cocky and aggressive attitude.  This would be done by him bumping into people, knocking bins over, walking over a car and smashing stuff. However I then thought that this theme may be a bit inappropriate considering the recent riots, as well as difficult to shoot.

The song it’s self was is very fast paced, with instrumentals that offer a variation to the overall pace of the song, which works well with the aggressive lyrics.  I thought of the idea in the very early stages of planning and pitched it to be group who all liked the idea but helped me realise that the theme may be a bit inappropriate considering the recent riots, as well as difficult to shoot because of the extra vigilance for anti rioting.

Another group member, Alex decided he liked my idea of dual narrative with a male rock band  and seeing as my original idea had its flaws exposed though up a stronger concept with time codes. This reflected by original idea, in a more toned down way but I thought that I would still like to add my own touch to the idea. I therefore came up with a more solid and suitable concept which was also dual narrative.

The video would be half performance, half narrative based in a typical indie style.

The performance would feature a band, in a completely white room in an enclosed space with a black and white effect. The editing would be fast and choppy, reflecting the pace of the song.

The Strokes - Isolated white setting similar to our band

This would intercut with the a narrative between a boy and a girl, both of whom would be quite rebellious and individual characters, quite typical of the indie genre. The video would start with the boy and the girl waking up and travelling to a street corner where they bump into each other, coinciding with the slow start to the song.  The two characters movements would be in synch, using graphic matching and match on action to show how the two are connected.

Our two characters would be similar to Avril Lavigne (Right) and Chris from Skins (Left), both cocky and individual characters.

The pace of the song then gets faster and the narrative adopts an almost love story. The boy bumps into the girl who reacts badly, however the boy sees this a flirtatious move and telling the girl to ‘come get me’. She hesitates before following him, the boy then climbs onto a car and almost performs to the girl on top of it, trying to impress her with his cocky attitude. Holding his hand out to the girl on the line ‘It don't matter give me one, two, three’. The girl hesitates before running ahead of the boy, urging him to now follow her, she takes over the lipsynching singing ‘I’ve no time to love’. Here we see a role reversal with the girl now the dominant role, the whole video is somewhat inspired by ‘One that I want’ from the 70s music Greece, where we see two lovers taunting with each other.

The rest of the video would show the couple running around streets together, doing quite controversial activities, as illegal as we can practically do and within the rules.  The video would develop to a point where the couple are split, the male sings the line ‘How dare you’ to a man, who is perhaps the reason for the split. The girl could perhaps have been run over or attacked and the male is addressing the criminal. Throughout the narrative we would be cutting back to the band performing the song in their enclosed white space.