Pitch

28/11/2012 - Today we altered our previous idea for our pitch due to the fact that at second glance we realised the idea was very similar to Britney Spears' song 'Baby, One More Time'. And I believe that setting the music video in our school, was not stretching our creative capacity regarding location and narrative style so we altered the pitch, and included a variety of locations that will creativley facilitate our story line. We want to take a lighthearted parody approach on a dark event, and so will need to ensure this is obvious to the audience through little clues.

Our Finalised idea is as follows:

• The protagonist will be on a date with her boyfriend and catch him flirting with an older woman on a different table. This is a direct reference to the lyrics as the protagonist suggests that her boyfriend is fond of slightly older women. 'Single and past thirty' as the lyrics denote.

• Then it will cut to a different date where he repeats the flirtatious behaviour with a different woman and yet again does not pay much attention to the protagonist. This is when she begins to sing the lyrics, as he is distracted and does not even notice. She storms off and this is when he realises and follows.

• The protagonist will quickly lead her boyfriend into her home, where he teases her and they PLAYfighst (so he thinks), his girlfriend has a jelous and vengeful demeanor and gets carried away in the 'playfight' as her bubbling emotions overtake her. She gets angrier and hits her boyfriend with the closes thing she can find, a giant lollipop that is on the side table. The audience are left wondering what happened to him.

• She then goes up the stairs to get ready for an occasion that is not yet revealed, this is the part that gets really creative with our focus of the candy as makeup and costume, as the audience are taken on her journey of her unstable mindstate as the candy acts as symbol of revenge, against the darkess that she has felt.

• There is a brief cut to a group of girls dressed in black, sobbing, the audience will notice that these are the girls that the boyfriend has flirted with.

• The protagonist is walking (whilst singing the lyrics of the song) in a field with the band and ends up at the same gathering as the girls.

• Cut scene of the protagonist pouring sherbet into the ashes.

• She does a nice gesture to the girls by giving them sherbet to comfort them. This is the irony of the repeated lyric in the song of 'how do my leftovers taste'? Ofcourse they eat the ashes mixed with sherbet.

• The camera moves back to reveal the occasion is her boyfriend's funeral.

• It then ends with the protagonist licking her lips, which have sherbert on, and the empty urn in her hand.