FOTC: Proposal

Flight of the Conchords- Inner city pressure (2008 album ‘Flight of the Conchords’)
-Further initial idea:



Breakdown of the song into a current music video:

-An old granny or an imposter old granny- similar to Basement Jaxx video…

• Walls closing in on the main character similar Train spotting?
• Idea that an old granny can’t cope with the expensive lifestyle that comes with living in the inner city. – For example she is in a terraced house and is rather small and dingy. She has spent all of her benefits and pension on buying a brand new motorised buggy which is completely pimped up- pink with tassels etc.
• ‘You pawned everything’…. Shots of handing over goods to a shop keeping: Granny brushes her tongue then hands over the toothbrush; jar with false teeth inside and splashes water over the counter; disposable camera sticky taped to a phone and she takes a picture of under her long old dress before handing it over. Hahahaha.
• ‘don’t know where your going’ – she crosses the road in a wheelchair/ motorised buggy and realises her false teeth are missing and does a U-turn
• ‘standing in the sitting room’ – knitting, ironing, trying to sit on ironing board which is too high,
• ‘Counting coins…’- she counts the coins in her purse and realises she is going to have to steal because she is skint. This is similar to an advert which I have seen …
  
  … the shopkeeper starts to chase her with a French stick.
• ‘underpants bit’- she can’t find any underpants in her drawer so she goes to the drawer below which is empty with only 1 pair!- a luminous thong or French knickers
• ‘Have you paid your rent yet’- starts to consider using those pants, implying prostitution.
• Chorus can be shots of her indoors looking out of the windows with the singers appearing as silhouettes through the window. –straight cuts
• ‘har-har-har-har-har’ – she is on her buggy down the street with passers by making eye contact and ‘har’ing’ and possibly pointing, then the last HARRR she stands up from her buggy like she is elevated from her chair-good angles needed etc.
• ‘So you think maybe you’ll be a prostitute…’- she is standing at the front door with an unattractive male at the door- she is trying to woo him.
• ‘Doesn’t measure up’- she is repulsive and they end up sitting on the floor or something.
• Synthesizers- shots of the artists playing their instruments and possibly the granny joining in with a kiddie’s keyboard on top of her ironing board.
  
• Last shots?
• Matt