Our pitch...

This is our idea to make the music video for cage the elephants song "soil to the sun."

Our first thoughts of this song was that its a mix between indie rock and old school american rock. So our first ideas originated from a cage the elephant video. We would put a video performance of the band on and have a projection of old school american rock artists in the background. This though was a bit vague so we decided to turn our attention to some other aspects of the band.
The name!!!

We (Floyd and Michelle) thought we could have an idea based on the name of the band. We would dress one of us in a fancy dress elephant costume and film it causing havoc around town. this leads to public distress and causes them to stage protests with banners (cage the elephant.) The elephant continues to cause havoc and in the end the final shot is of the elephant and a cage dropping on it from above.

In consideration for potential problems in our project... we thought that because of the costume, lip syncing would be an issue. Too counteract this we would get the person dressed up to hold up cards showing the lyrics on in the correct time to the track. Another issue could be how to cause havoc around town without causing major disturbances, we need to make more consideration about this before shooting but we have some ideas about how we could be cautious in where we could film and how we could do this. So that the havoc we cause isnt sustainable etc...


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