Ideas

My idea for the Fiver promo was to just slam together a load of live footage and out the information at the end. Obviously there would be a bit more planning to it than that as we would need to consider music and the appropriateness of the footage i would be using. Matt also came up with the idea of just having someone sitting in a room looking around for 10 seconds or so, then looking straight at the camera and simply saying "what?". Then the information about the fiver comes up on the screen. I absolutely adored this idea, as it was stupid enough to appeal to the majority of the target audience, quick enough to keep their attention and bizarre enough to make them question it. If they question it, they will be talking about it, and then they will want to watch it again.

Unfortauntely, we were bought back to Earth when we realised it had absolutely nothing to do with the Fiver, so we sort of used my idea with more thought. Tara came up with the idea of using intereviews with the band, so you could get their reactions from playing the Fiver, as you are more likely to believe someone you have just seen doing something than someone you've never seen before and may well just be being paid to read lines.

The bands are usually found via MySpace. They either e-mail their contact details or some of their music to Gary Brown, who's in charge and he will listen to it and decide who he wants to play each time it's on.

The general playlist for the Fiver is as follows:
The first band will be new, young and could be the first gig they've played, especially to such a large crowd. The reason for this is that many young bands don't really believethey are going to get anywhere without their 'bug break' the Junction believe that if they can give the band a break, it may help them a bit and keep them playing music for longer as most of them aren't going to make it.

The second band will probably be somewhat similar to the first.

The third band on stage would be more popular, maybe having played a few gigs at assorted pubs or clubs, to a much smaller crowd, but have had some sort of experience playing live.

The 4th band on is usually pretty popular online, have a small following and have more experience playing live events to a slightly larger crowd.

If they can get it, the 5th band tends to be a band just balancing on the brink of mainstream. Some of them are signed to a label and have gotten a small bit of airplay on the radio.