Pitch

Ideas for 'Curbside prophet'- Jason Mraz


Locations: In and around Busy city. For example Cambridge. Walking along in front of People. passing shops.

Props: guitar, maybe a banjo, bench, iPod

Mise en Scene: Casual clothing, Jeans, natural lighting, set in mid-day light in autumn.

Target audience for the video: General viewing for all ages, because its easy to remember, non-offensive and catchy.

Reference to research conducted on the band: In his video 'Wordplay' he sits on a tree trunk, playing a guitar, we will be using a guitar for one of our props.

Genre of the band and the song: Both the band and song are country/pop, with a jazzy upbeat to it.

Relationship between the music and the visuals: the actor will be imitating playing a guitar, will be walking in beat with the song looking as cheerful as the music.

Relationship between the lyrics and the visuals: The actor will be walking down a street near a curb, the actor will be imitating parts of the lyrics through his actions.

If the video will conform to or oppose the generic conventions of videos within that genre of music: It does conform to generic conventions of music videos, as it is nice, happy music and is no different to any other jack Johnson video

Main Singer/actor to be walking down a street on or near the curb, walking past people on the street with them interacting with the singer and him/her approaching the people on the street interacting and singing to, and about them.

Using illustrative actions which will create a narrative. For example He's a curbside prophet with HIS HAND in his pocket..

Parts of Illustrative Narrative :

F or the part about "picked up the guitar in the mix" - the actor will pick up a guitar lying partly on the curb, or see a person sitting in front of a shop playing a guitar, and invite the guitarist to join him on his journey down the street.

"raising a toast to the highway patrol" - the actor will interpret a raising of as glass towards the road and the restaurant behind him will raise their glasses, we can try to get people to do this for us, but if not the actor could still raise a glass and maybe a car following for the next lyric interpretation, "hop in girl", the driver could raise a glass also.

"Hop in the truck" - actor will act out driving a car and asking a invisible girl to join him, and follow him.

SPREADING THE WORD OF THE PROTHET, CURBSIDE!