Similar artist - Jose Gonzalez

We have looked into artists similar to our chosen artist and the closest we found was Jose. He is a Swedish indie folk songwriter whose style i find suited to Ed's. He started his career with a band called 'Back Against the Wall'. He released his debut album in 2003 called 'Veneer' an amazing album with covers of many popular songs that became a huge hit instantly. His trademark sound is solo classical guitar with soft vocal melody. His work, although mostly his own, also includes acoustic covers, an example is the amazing song 'Heartbeats' by his fellow Swedes 'The Knife'. He released his second less popular album, In Our Nature. He got his inspiration from The God Delusion book by Richard Dawkins. His unique sound has attracted a wide audience with his first album selling over 700,000 copies around the world. His song has been used in many videos and used to sell many products, most famously for the SONY advert for the new TV.

Story board 1st draft

Alarm clock – starting noise – Point of view

Wakes up, gets up and goes to wake up friends/girlfriend


Cuts scene – to strings on guitar (performance based half) low angle close up


Exchange of point of view shots (possibly make the camera part of the narrative) getting up from hang over or just with girlfriend


A pillow thrown at the camera/actor (point of view) as screen goes black cut to previous night (what happened) OR cut to going to bathroom as taking the towel down from face from showering.


Cut to singing (performance based half) medium shot


Go out in car exchange of point of view shots, putting CD in, kiss on cheek for girlfriend idea OR just messing around with mates.
Arrive at park/arcade/bowling/cinema (we’ll ask permission to use camera during adverts) looking down at air hockey, look up and exchange to them sitting on sofa together watching film, hug OR cut to actual football from foosball with mates they come around you for doing something like scoring/saving


Cut to singing (performance based half) close up from the side


Possibly bring the idea of being young? Exchange of shots as they go to young? Messing around in park, OR on train going somewhere, getting ready for night out? Like previous night?
OR
At restaurant with girlfriend with preparations like getting ready before?

Cut to singing high angle shot


Just getting to pub/club with mates / or see girlfriend there she runs over kisses you and brings you through door as goes black use shot from the beginning with the alarm going off and waking up.


Possibly one more performance based shot?

Eyes opening and closing looking at bedside table turns over looks at girlfriend screen goes black

Possibly one last performance based half of artist finishing?

Change of plans

We eventually decided that the song by the script was way too main stream and similar to many other songs at this time. We have decided we wanted something new and in its own style. My work partner went to see the band 'example' and a supporting act that is touring with the band, called ed sheeran, caught our attention. He's a brand new artist, young, with his style the closest i can think of as similar to Jose Gonzalez. Despite only turning 18 in February 2009, Ed Sheeran is more experienced than his age would suggest. He has already generated two albums and become winner in 2008 for 'Next big thing' competetion. His music is described as blending acoustic and folk with hip hop beats. In the past 12 months he has done nearly 300 gigs around the UK really trying to get his name out there. For a 19 year old he is doing extremely well for himself and we really like his sound. For us it offers the perfect mix between jose gonzalez and the script. We have looked through his albums and found the song 'one night', it is a soft song that sounds similar to heartbeat by jose gonzalez.