Stafford Song music video

jasperfilms

chris atkinson
ok i wana make a proper music video now for the song. Me and sofa have talked about ideas but thought it might be a good idea to get some inspiration from you fine people. Please post you ideas on this thread. The more ambitious the better!!!!


cheers

skill points will be awarded to all posters lol!
 

Admin

You there; behave!
Staff member
10 Stafford Points awarded to jasperfilms, for the excellent job on the Stafford Song interview/promo, and his continued support and innovation along with Sofa :)

I know you lot are a creative bunch, so I expect to see some skill suggestions in this thread (along with the inevitable "lol bewbs" answers and such ;) )!
 

MISS T

Forum user & abuser
Locations?? The bandstand, or white bridge over the river in Viccy Park. Or through the town a la Bono on the back of a moving vehicle, with forumites passing by.
 

cookie_monster

Well-Known Forumite
MISS T said:
Or through the town a la Bono on the back of a moving vehicle, with forumites passing by.
like the pageants stafford used to have?

what about the castle? the high house? the gatehouse....

...in fact, what about landmarks from each of the places mentioned in the song? eg, wildwood = kwiksave


x
 

MISS T

Forum user & abuser
Finbar could do his line, in a Sainsbury/Tesco/asda trolley, I'm thinking Pulp "common people", Tenshon in the Sadie Frost role.
 

Jheych

Wasps - feel my wrath!
What about using local landmarks as mentioned .. castle , asdas, sainsburys, joxers etc .. etc .. and doing a recording of the shed enders at marston road singing the "I'm a staffordian" bit at the start of the chorus .. Could use footage from things like farmers market, Shakespeare at the castle ..etc .. Use some stills from Sandwich boards, and other publicity already

You could write the vid as a mini adventure .or two ?. with sofa going to all the various places ..bit of a panic on dressed in rambler or hiker gear complete with bobble hat and rucksack.. carrying an OS map or something going through the various places in a bit of a panic to find "something" .. then finishing it at Marston road with the chorus .. A kind of lost and cant find my way to stafford type thing ..or something else ..

What about a spoof on prison break..

Sofa has been banged up for varios crimes of one sort or another and he is talking to his cellmate about the place and his memories come flooding back to good old stafford town and so having gone through what he likes about the place and its various attractions makes an escape bid .but only in his dreams .. . maybe a bit benny hill speeded up or something and comes back to the town .. or maybe thats a bit mental..

Or maybe .. suited and booted type one.. theres a big meeting , sort of planning commitee or somesuch where it appears that something bad is about to happen to the town ( a bypass or something..hang on thats happenin!) ..Whatever tho it's going to get developed beyond recognition .. type stuff.. the planners are adamant its going to go ahead.. lots of this is what we are gooing to do to the town type dialogue and maybe a model on a table showing what its going to be like ..lots of stern looks and "we know whats good for the place" .. then when it looks like the stafford populus cant win the fight .. one voice starts to sing a bit quiet at first getting louder .. cue sofa song , maybe with a kind of music, dancey bit .. where the town residents at the meeting get involved in the chorus and start taking over the meeting .. which closes with the flabergasted planners and big wigs either throwing the paperwork in the air or tearing it up .. knowing that the people of stafford aint going to let this happen ..




Or



then perhaps for the names could try a sort of Bob dylan esque S homesick blues with the cards to flick through the different names somewhere in it ..

and er.. thats my brainstorming bit done .. could be silly but never know there might be somethin in there ?..

At least there no dragons or nuclear fallout or anythin in my ideas..

thats my tuppence worth anyway ..

toodles ..
 

Doctor

Well-Known Forumite
Just as long as it's got lots of zooming in and out to make it feel like the old Doley Sofa days I'll be happy.
 

Kharis

Kharis
I agree with ideas of driving a car through stafford and pointing to places although I don't know if health and safety would be an issue at all!!! The idea mentioned regarding cards with items on Dylan stylie could work but knowing the sofa I think he'd want more action!!! Perhaps sofa could gather friends and family and each person could appear in one of the locations mentinoed with a similar t-shirt on to the sofa explaining that they are a staffordian too!

Alternatively I personally think the best way forward would be to have the sofa appearing at every location and looking more knackerd as the video progresses, maybe dropping maps and various tourism information flyers etc behind him on the way, or possibly handing them out to friends etc in the vid....ended in with the sofa appearing with feet up and a pint in his fave stafford watering hole surrounded by his fellow staffordians etc! I like the frantic nature of the rushing around on this one as this could also match the quite frantic vocals during the song and add to the comic effect!
 

MISS T

Forum user & abuser
Jheych said:
Sofa has been banged up for varios crimes of one sort or another and he is talking to his cellmate about the place and his memories come flooding back to good old stafford town and so having gone through what he likes about the place and its various attractions makes an escape bid .but only in his dreams .. . maybe a bit benny hill speeded up or something and comes back to the town .. or maybe thats a bit mental..
:rofl:
 

db

#chaplife
Jheych said:
lol :rofl: skill blatantly awarded for that excellent stream of consciousness.. particularly:

Jheych said:
..dressed in rambler or hiker gear complete with bobble hat and rucksack..

..spoof on prison break..

..maybe a bit benny hill..

..dragons..

..nuclear fallout..
lol.. brilliant..
 

gon2seed

(and me! - Ed)
Love the idea of the (former) shed end siniging chorus, but you'd need to act sharpish as the season ends on Saturday. An alternative would be the charity game on May 6th but I don't think the attendance will be quite as large.
 

rich upsetter

Cuffy is the new skill
for anyone who hasnt seen sofa performing the mighty song lived, he will be doing a command perforemance at the multi forumite bash this weekend. so i reckon this should make it on the video n all..

re the idea of the shed sionging, this would indeed be a beautiful moment, reminiscent of the wembley crowd singing 'footballs coming home' on three lions....maybe???!!!
 

Jheych

Wasps - feel my wrath!
Merci buckets for the points peeps ..just an abstract stream of ideas but ..from small ideas big things develop..

Good point about the zooming in and out as was in the old DS days too Doc .. !
 

jimstafford

Jimdrinski
definitely a rangers anthem ( one to rival the kop faithful at anfield! ) get that camera there this sat and we'll do our best! barmy army!!!
 
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