Week 5: NEW IDEA 2

Couples Competition
People are running away from or towards something:

 - a Test Shoot that David and Ed made over the weekend

This successfully demonstrates how the concept can work as an entertaining and time consuming scene.


Here is a list of Concepts, that we came up with, for why the couples are running:

1. Sports day
2. Fun run
3. Fatties and salad
4. Teachers and students
5. Scouts, cubs, beavers
6. Village fair
7. Black Friday
8. Wedding opening slots
9. Race to happiness 
10. Race to be the best couple
11. Survival 
12. To eat
13. To drink, fresh water
14. Holiday ticket
15. New car
16. Mystery box 
17. Cooperate team building team challenge 
18. Facebook how great is your relationship
19. How far will you go for victory
20. Cheese wheel down the hill
21. Dragon racing
22. Soapbox derby racing
23. Bed racing 
24. Wife carrying race
25. Zorbing 
26. Last baby to adopt 
27. Last table at a restaurant 
28. Baby cheese wheel
29. Last engagement rings up for grabs
30. To be the first person to buy the house on the first sale sign.
31. Couples race to build ikea furniture
32. The colour run
33. Costume racing 
34. Three legged race 
35. To catch a train
36. To catch a bus
37. Postman training, running from dogs
38. Big pile of cash they’re chasing while it is moving away.
39. They’re late for a party 
40. Kayak race 
41. Rowing race 
42. One of the couples from each group is getting kidnapped, while the other ones are trying to get them. 
43. Blind folded maze
44. Scavenger hunt
45. Mens trophy, womens Olympics. Vice versa. Performance element on a podium. 
46. All these girls are chasing this guy. Girls in knight costumes. Guy with long blonde hair, damsel in distress. Switch of genders
47. Girls chasing this boy.
48. Three couples, race for best couple trophy. At a dinner party, hosting awards and these three couples racing to get that award. 
49. Food fight. Powder fight. Paint fight. Anything colourfully messy. 

Performance Elements
Lip-sync in dark studio
Drum pad performer (Gareth Donkin) and keyboard player (?) in background either side
Pixel Lines used to create flashing coloured squares behind performance
Projection of Drum Pad lights onto white background
Include shots of Matt Muncey doing back flips and tricks in slow motion


 - Inspired by this music video: