Set outside a bank, all camera shots are taken from inside or outside the bank. 2 Men dressed as hobos (or not haven’t decided quite yet). Sit facing the bank with a guitar each and begin to play to start the tune.
They have a sign saying “Jobless men keep going, we can’t take care of our own”. The song switches between shots at a steady slow rate at first, including some shots at night with them sitting on the sidewalk busking. Bank shot on first lyric “Could you forget the awful things i’ve done?”. A pedestrian (actor) will walk by the two performers stop then sit next to them.
This is clipped in with shots of singing at various busking spots. Throughout the song more and more pedestrians come and sit down with the two performers. The most start to come to sit down on the second verse “Sweet Jesus could you wash my sadness away?”
In the solo following the second verse people from inside the bank begin to walk outside and sit with the performers too. The group is quite large now, the solo clips in-between shots of the group sitting and the two performers writing the sign and tuning their guitar, there are also shots of them walking to the bank and shots of busking spots again.
Last verse is comprised of all shots previously mentioned clipping between one another with lip synch on all of them. When song finishes people are still sitting and the shot fades out.
Alternate take
Set outside a bank, scruffy looking man walks up to bank with a sign and holds it up/attaches to himself, the sign is saying “Jobless men keep going, we can’t take care of our own”. The two performers are seen down the road and a preparing to perform. As they start playing the song cues in, camera shots cut between the two performers and the man at several banks holding the same sign (performers will be at same location throughout song, just with different angles).
As the first verse starts the man is seen talking to various people as they walk into the bank, he is trying to get them to hold up the sign with him. (has a megaphone if possible if not then just shouting it doesn’t matter what he’s shouting as you wont hear it). Hopefully gets some people to hold up the sign as he shouts down the megaphone. Throughout the first verse shots clip between the man’s protest at different banks and the performers playing the song on the street.
All people who hold up the sign must be real people in order to get the dramatic effect right. no matter what happens the shots will look good as if people agree to hold up the sign there is a upbeat feel to the song if they refuse then there’ll be a sorrow feeling to the song. Either way will be fine.
As the second verse begins the man is seen sitting across a desk (he is well dressed) talking to a man sitting across from him in a suit (Banker). The man is looking very desperate and looks as though he’s begging, the banker is looking very solemn. On the last line of the verse the banker stamps a form or signs a form DENIED. During the whole verse shots are only clipped between the meeting and the performers, not the actual protest.
As the solo starts at the end of the second verse the man is seen wrecking the bankers desk (sweeping of papers, kicking over things). Security (anyone wearing a suit) drags the man away as he manically struggles. Shots clip the same as the second verse but once he is taken away he is seen making the sign. On the second half of the solo clip between making the sign, crying/breaking down and the performers playing the solo. The last verse opens with the banker sitting at his desk in a solemn/depressed state, he lip-synch’s the first two lines of the last verse. These two lines clip in between the banker the guitar playing (on the street) accompanying it. the last lines of the song switch between the performer lip-synching, the banker doing the same and the man outside the various banks protesting. Last shot is man Either being taken away from protesting or leaving by his own accord.
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