UPDATE

We are no longer doing fast fuse by Kasabian. After teacher feedback we agreed that the idea wasn't interesting enough and too typical of the Indie genre. We felt that the song is too restricted to its genre and my idea didn't help it is escape that. Our other idea, conjured by Narsishma although a brilliant concept was not suited to our strengths as we did not know a black lead singer.

Her idea is shown below

So back to square one on friday, less than a week before our pitch. Needless to say, this wasn't the position we wanted to be in, However between our group we spent 7periods of our 8 period day plus lunchtime brainstorming and talking to teachers about potential ideas.

Then with the help of the teachers, we saw the light, we all agreed that we just wanted to do something fun that we would enjoy, prompting miss to suggest 'do the absurd'. We'd seen a funny video in a lesson the previous day so I was quite open about doing a humorous video. Heres a diary of how Fridays crazy day went.

Aidan

• Periods 1 - Mrs Blackborow calls me and Alex in to suggest not doing Fast Fuse. Initially we are quite worried as we quickly figured that we had less than a week to think of an idea and pitch it.
• She suggests that we feature humour in our video, urging us to contemplate using my younger brother who everyone finds hilarious on camera.
• This developed into a video of Aidan (my brother) coming of age and transforming into me, however, I felt that after having trouble with my previous narrative based idea, I'd rather go all out funny, 
• I then suggested Aidan dancing, and drawing a crowd, as he brings humor to a screen, inspired by this Pendulum video.
  
• This somehow transformed into the idea of him dancing with Animals, to emphasise the absurd
  
  

Period 2- A hungry Alex and myself decide to go grab some breakfast in hope it helped us discover inspiration...

Period 3 - We come back to the media block to find a frenzy of excitement has erupted over our animal costume idea, however, in this period it transforms once more into a dance off between animals, performed by animals dressed in costumes.

Period 4-5 Narishma and Jess are made aware of the idea as they had lessons period 1,2,3 and work on developing it.

Lunch - We all agree on the idea that there is a dance off between animals, which develops into a routine which they embrase in together. This then turns into a flash mob, with dozens of people joining in. Everyone in our media block is buzzing about the idea and beg us to be in the video!

Period 7-8 As a group we sit down as a 4 and try to complete a concept for our video. Coming up with the idea of a dance off between a Panda and a Monkey, after the Panda rolls up with a Ghetto blaster and dances infront of the monkey. For the first minute of the video, the two have a dance off.
This develops into a performance by both the Monkey and the Panda. Passers by then start to watch and join in with the pair, thus forming a Flash Mob!!

Our notes from the meeting

Wow a flash mob, it was my dream idea for this project when it wasn't serious last year but I presumed it would always be too complicated to do. I'm so excited for the idea and nervous! Pressures on, I know we can pull this off.