2. The song we have chosen
• The song we have chosen is called ‘Suffolk Punch’ by a folk duo
called: The Broadside Boys.
• The Broadside Boys are an unsigned band who originate from and
live in Suffolk.
• The song ‘Suffolk Punch’ is about a good, honest farmer from Suffolk
who tends to get himself into a few fights at local pubs.
• We chose this as there are a few references to places around the
Suffolk region and we thought it would be good to film there.
• We also managed to get their permission to use their video via
twitter.
3. Plans for our video
• We plan to make our song a mixture of both narrative and
performance based video. (mainly performance as this is what most
folk videos are)
• After analysing the lyrics of the song we realised that we would be
able to film in certain places (some hoping we get permission).
• For example: the song talks about Ipswich Town
Football Club, so filming down Portman Road
will be easy.
• They also name a few pubs around Suffolk, but we know a pub in
which we could get permission to film in and pretend that’s the pub
they’re on about.
4. Locations
• A great place we could use is to film just
outside of the Beagle. It is a pub, outside is
fields where they have let the grass over grow
• We also plan to use the Belstead Brook as it
also has had is grass overgrown and is
surrounded by trees and we think would be a
good place for the performance side of the video.
• For the filming of the pub, Pauls Sports club
along Belstead Road has its main bar closed off
after 9pm (weekdays) as Shaun is a member of the
pub, we hope to get permission to film in there.
5. Our inspiration
• After choosing the song, to help decide what would happen in our video, we did
some research on the biggest country and folk band in the world, at the
moment: Mumford and Sons
• Most of their videos contains a mixture of performance and narrative.
• When it was performance based, all the
band is together and all were playing
their instruments. The lead singer is
normally singing/ performing to the camera
• In the narrative side of the video, the band
tend to be following the storyline of the
lyrics and most of it would be in slow motion.
There is normally some abstract features in the
narrative side of the video. We will attempt to
include some of these features in our video.
6. Star Image
• Once again, to get an idea of what our star image would look like, we
turned to Mumford and Sons.
• As soon as you look at Mumford and Sons you can
tell they’re a country and folk group by the way
they dress. But they have modernised their
clothing.
• But in contrast to Mumford and Sons, the artists of the
song we are using, Broadside Boys, tend to wear more
old fashioned and traditional country clothing.
However they do have a modern theme, like Mumford
and Sons
• So we want to be somewhere in the middle of the two.
A mix of modern and traditional.
7. Recognisable
• We want to add something in our video that people will recognise us
by.
• Just like Jay-Z does the triangle with his hands, we want to have
camera shots of a beer called Broadside. This will act as a motif
throughout the video.
• This is because:
1) The band who wrote the song are called Broadside Boys
2) The song is about a man at pubs
3) The beers is also made in Suffolk (Southwold), this links
to the lyrics.
8. Props / Mise-en-scene
• In all of the country an folk songs that we analysed, every single
video had the instruments in. This makes the artists appear
genuine.
• In the Broadside Boys, there are 2 members, they both sing, but
only one holds the guitar. Luckily we have easy access to a guitar
and will use it through-out the video to emulate other folk groups.
• We also plan to use the Broadside Beer (as shown in the slide
before)
• The video talks about football and Ipswich’s rivalry
against Norwich, so we plan to place in the video
references to ITFC. e.g. a few people wearing the shirts.
• Also the video talks about pub fights (using bats, bottles and fists), so there will be a
little bit of fighting using these items (but we won’t physically hit one another).
• They also mention about flat-back cap, this is a stereotype of Suffolk farmers. So we
shall use theses.
