Initial Idea 1

Band: Vampire Weekend
Song: Giving Up The Gun
Band Image: Indie Rockers from New York formed in 2006. ‘Preppy’, gentle, ‘geek’ look.

Three elements;
1) the band in a garden playing their instruments
2) four school girls following the band
3) a balloon room
Opening 16 bars show cuts of each band member in the garden playing their instruments.
As each triangle chimes a school girl pops out from behind a tree watching the band.
Singing begins on first chorus and band is playing. We see School Girls (S.G’s) giggling and planning something.
First verse and camera cuts to balloon room where two long balloons have been made into a 1 and a 7 and are shown to camera, person holding them can’t be seen.
Back to garden. At bridge as base come in the girls run out from behind tree, band sees them and gets up to run.
Band finds three child bicycles and three of them peddle away leaving drummer to run. Girls still following.
Balloon room is getting filled to the brim with number-balloons and ordinary ones.
During instrumental band hides behind buses and lamp posts and other outdoor things while girls search for them
They find a door marked (something..?) go in to the dark room.
The lights get turned on all of a sudden at drum beat and the room full of balloons is revealed.
Four beautiful older girls emerge (the bands respective girlfriends)
The school girls come giggling in and are given balloons as rewards for getting band here.
Everyone takes some balloons and they run outside to let them off into the sky as the repetitive ending of the song is heard ‘’go on, go on, go on..’’
The end.
-the official video for the song