The Ed Sullivan Show - The inspiration to the Ed Woods show

In our music video we would like to emphasize the idea of having a 1950's TV show by having a television presenter who is rather up-beat, excited and is able to put on a stereotypical American accent. We have cast our media teacher (Mr Wood) but what better way to make a presenter and use two very famous men and combine them to make one man. Ed and Wood coming from the 1948-1971 TV show that Sullivan hosted as well as Mr Ed Wood, famous sci-fi film maker, actor and author. 

Ed Sullivan was always known as a quirky TV personality and always managed to project and give himself a recognizable voice. Also you may have noticed that he is wearing a suit which is a key part of our video so we want our presenter to be wearing a normal suit. On the other hand we would like our presenter to keep his surname so Ed Wood is close enough. Furthermore we would preferably like our presenter to be good looking (which he is) so it coheres with Ed Wood's savvy, cool traits... Not only off screen but on screen too.

Overall we would like our nostalgic part of the video to mix in and relate with Ed Sullivan's 1964 show when the Beatles were playing live in-front of an audience of women. Here is the video...

As you can see Ed starts off by presenting the band in a wide shot whilst standing up and with a fairly normal background. He is wearing a dinner suit as if it connotes the evening and that people will be watching the show in-front of the television whilst eating dinner. Ironically this period was a time where tv dinners took a toll for a different lifestyle.  He then points and the camera fades into another wide shot of the band about to play 'Twist and Shout'. A lot of zooming occurs as well as footage from a very rowdy and ecstatic audience. There is a lack of variation when it comes to camera angles as those times didn't really expect or even think about having creative angles within the performance. Not to mention they probably didn't have many cameras filming them either, they just wanted to sell themselves by using simple wide shots of the whole band. Therefore we would like to incorporate this but combine it with modern technologies to give it a look that several cameras are being used to film the band. Also we will sell ourselves by using individual shots of each band member so it acts as a debut, thus giving fans a small insight into each and every one of us playing in the band.