to start thinking up some ideas for the music video we printed off the lyrics to the song and then annotated them, the song is about peace and freedom and the evils of war and hatred so we wanted to include these images within our music video as part of the narrative, especially the images of "keep your head up" and "keep on trying" and emphasize the power of the human will how people can push forward and keep fighting against hatred no matter what.

Idea 1;
our first idea was to start with a shot of the perfomer which probably would have been the guitarist as its intro is played on guitar, then people start to congregate around the performer listening to the song, and they start to hold up posters and banners about peace, so the music video eventually transforms into a protest group against war and hatred almost as if a revolution starts which would tie in with the lyrics "And if you feel the urge to raise your hand You can start a revolution or start a band".

i like this idea but its going to be hard to do, as we would need to organise a lot of people make sure they don't change there costume or position between the different shots.

Idea 2;
this is very similar to idea 1 but this one would be shot in the lickey hills, but instead of people just randomly walking up, there would be shots to show that an online protest had been set up and that this one song is a small part of a big revolution, where it has been organised that people would come along for a "sing-along".

but again this seems like a challenge to acheive, with additional problems with the use of computers and properly portraying an online revolution and it may be difficult as not alot of people live near the lickey hills and transport there is limited for many people.

Idea 3;
in this video we would follow 4 different people, who each have unique problems, like bullying, poverty, health issues, and each of the individuals as they hear of an event, or a "gig" and they all decide to go to this event, which would be the performer onstage, this would be the performance side of the video but there wouldn't be many shots of the performer ad they would all be from the audience, like a first person of one of the individuals, so the video would be centred more on the narrative, which would be a cumulative of each of the individuals, and it would end with them singing along to the song forgetting there problems and the problems of the world, almost as if it was a safe haven for people without the attrocities of modern life.

this is my favorite idea so far, but it will require alot of time to film, and may people, not just the four central individuals but the bullys, there family and doctors, then the crowd at the gig, a hall would have to be booked for the performance part of the video, then editing all 4 together into a video that makes sense and flows smoothly and transitions well between the individuals.