Pegboard Nerds - Pressure Cooker: Planning

Now onto the actual concrete planning of my music video. First I'm going to iron out what's actually going to happen, and at what point. My plan is to have a group of stereotypical 'bad guy' folk standing around patrolling an area, wherein our hero will come in and starting fighting all of them. That will last for our first drop; the fight will go pretty well for our hero until toward the end of the first drop where some reinforcements will come in and overwhelm the hero character. Then, during the second buildup we'll cut to the hero's friends who are all sitting around until they get a distress call on their TV or something similar then they spring into action and head to the place where the first fight took place, just in time for the second drop. Then they'll have guns etc. and have a big firefight with the bad guys and get their friend out of trouble in time for the end of the song.

So, more specifically, here's that waveform again:

Here is the establishing shot, most probably. We'll show off the location, show the viewer where everything and everyone is, and what's going on. There's some shady looking folks guarding some form of important looking box.


Introducing our main hero, who spends a few beats scoping out the bad guys before stepping in.





Action time! Probably starting out with our hero fighting one of the bad guys off to the side. Another might show up but it's mostly one at a time.







The other bad guys evidently catch wind and it's 1 vs 2 or 3 at a time. Our hero only holds out for so long before slipping up and getting caught.







Cut to our hero's allies back at their base, sitting around not doing a huge amount when a distress call comes up.


They spring into action and start checking out what's wrong.


They start brainstorming a plan of attack around a table.





They agree on a plan and head off, turning up at the main site. They see the hero character all tied up on a chair.


They pull out loads of guns and shoot everyone. The bad guys find some cover and begin to return fire. Firefight ensues. Eventually one bad guy is left - a burly type (probably got an eyepatch or something), and, out of ammo, he starts running at our friends. They're out of ammo too, so they look at each other panicking.


One bright spark on the good guy's team throws their gun at the bad guy to stun him for enough time so that they can spring forward and start fighting him. Our hero busts out of their binds and grabs one of the dead bad guy's guns, then runs up and shoots the last bad guy.





The group take a moment to catch their breath, then grab the box and walk off, proud.

END











So, we can't have these people having gunfights etc. in casual wear, so I was thinking along the lines of giving everyone tactical vests of sorts, like the ones Corridor use a lot:

 Having experience shopping for these sorts of costumes before, I am doubtful I'll be able to find enough good ones under our budget. And after checking Amazon I don't think I'll be able to get more than one, if that.

So maybe we could have some knee-pads and elbow pads too? Maybe as opposed to the vests?

So, I scoured Amazon again for some cheapo stuff I could have for props and look at all this:

I could probably afford some of these things and throw them together to get some decent looking costume types together.

We'll also need guns. I'll be able to buy a decent-enough looking pistol for cheap, and I was also thinking of getting in touch with the chap who provided the guns for my classmate Jack's short film Schemes:

Having seen them in person these are some high quality guns, and also you can see a vest there too. So, if I can procure these for my video then that would be immensely helpful.

I've now ordered a gun and some pads, this is pretty much all I can do until I shoot.