First Pitch:

Up and Coming

Logline:
The music industry is becoming more and more difficult to be successful within, due to digitization and a closure of music venues. We follow teenage band, Bonhomie, as they work their way through the risky industry of music, interviewing other interested parties along the way.

Character Profiles:
Bonhomie:
Dan Williams- Lead singer/ lead guitar, confident, eccentric, lead songwriter, person who formed the band 3 years ago.
Ben Lincoln- Drummer, relaxed, younger member of the band.
Michael Belfrage- Bassist, also relaxed, more eccentric.
James Reader- Rhythm guitar, matter-of-fact persona.

The Attic:
Manager (yet to attain name), manager of the attic, owns a popular venue for teens and independent bands so would be a valuable source of information on the independent music scene.
Landline- 01233 877440

Locations:
-The Attic- Ashford- 27 Bank Street, Floor 2, Access via Norwood Street, Ashford TN23 1DG

The Attic is a venue which show many various activities such as live bands, screenings of various films and has an included bar.

We hope to go to this location as one of the bands we are considering to interview will be playing there on a specified date. This way we can hope to gain footage of the band in action as well as get interviews from the band members.

Here, we could also have the chance of speaking to the owners of the venue and the people who work there to give their view on the activities that go around and the effect that the music industry has.

-The Royal Albion- Maidstone- Fremlin Walk Shopping Centre, 19 Havock Lane, Maidstone ME14 1QE

Opposite the Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, The Royal Albion Pub is a popular Maidstone bar which, like The Attic, holds various events such as live bands and even karaoke nights. One of our bands will also be playing there. 

Opportunities for interviews here will be greater as well as not only will we have the band and possible the owners and staff to interview, but we might have a chance of interviewing several customers with their permission and get a view of independent bands and the music industry from the eyes of the local community.

Story Synopsis:

- 40% of the music venues in London alone have shut down.

- We will follow independent band Bonhomie, through the high and low points of life producing independent music.

- We will also address the bigger picture involving the independent music scene in Maidstone and Ashford.

- We will discuss this with the venue owners, venue staff, music journalists, the general public/ venue attendees and the members of Bonhomie themselves.

Treatment:

- Mostly interviews and statistics will be used but with an upbeat nature to fit in with the teen spirit theme.

- Main Characters- All members of Bonhomie, Manager, Staff and customers of 'The Attic' and 'The Royal Albion Pub'

- The story will be told by a narrator who is outside of the subject matter. 

FEEDBACK:
Our feedback to this is the fact that our pitch was too short for the ten minute time gap that we were given. Plus we still need to have a clear idea of who the characters are rather than having the short statements about each character that we had.
One major piece of feedback is that we should contact someone from BBC Introducing. This person has been said to enable us with contacts to other bands and also would be a great source of information on how the industries are as a whole at this current day and age and will possibly be able to meet with our band to discuss the industry as a whole which we would be able to film.
We need to make these call straight away so that we allow enough time for these people to get back to us. I believe that this will be a very good idea as it will add a lot more weight to our current idea and give us more story for our documentary.