1. A man stands behind a home made stall, selling some CDs. Another guy comes up to him, and buys one. Both men seem pleased. Then the guy who bought a CD sets up a stall right next door, and starts running off loads of copies. Whenever people walk past the two stalls now, the second guy hands everyone a free CD-R. The first guy looks a little bit uneasy, and gradually more and more people flock to the second guy, whilst the first guy starts to look more and more exhausted. It ends with a tagline along the lines of something like "Don't take the easy way out. Sharing copyrighted files online is harming musicians."
2. We see two characters, one representing, say, an independent band and one representing file sharing, presented as two characters in a fighting game like Street Fighter or Tekken. We cut to clips of people downloading music, and after each one cut back to the fighting game style footage where the file sharing character starts to pummel the band character. A voiceover could say something like "File sharing is harming music. Help it fight back - buy a CD", and then we cut to footage of someone buying a CD. After this the band character begins to start beating the file sharing character.
EDIT: Here's a rough script for this idea -
Flashy intro, showing two names and character’s faces bursting onto the screen. There’s Independent Band, and Download Dan (names not final, haha!). Band is shown to be very heroic looking and noble, Download Dan however resembles a villainous, cackling madman.
VOICEOVER – It’s the rumble of the century! A brave Independent Band with bills to pay takes on the mighty tyrant of internet file sharing software! Who will emerge the victor? Let’s find out.....FIGHT!
Cut to the two characters standing next to each other, with their names and health bars at the top of the screen like Street Fighter. The two size each other up, then Download Dan lunges, and we cut to footage of someone downloading an album online. Cut back to the fight and Download Dan attacks Band.
VOICEOVER – Oh, and that’s a nasty hit!
Cut away again to someone else downloading music, then cut back to Dan attacking Band again.
VOICEOVER – Ouch, and that’s another whack in the gut! Band isn’t taking this very well! Let’s see what our ringside commentator has to say about this!
Cut to a man stood in front of the pair fighting.
COMMENTATOR – Well Larry, file sharing is certainly battering independent music! If this continues, he could be outta the ring all together! So come on music fans, let’s help the big guy out!
VOICEOVER – Wise words there, but is all hope lost for our plucky pugilist?
Cut to someone buying a CD, and then cut back to the fight where Band begins to fight back.
VOICEOVER – I don’t believe it! What a turnaround!
Continue to cut away to people buying music, and after each one cut back to Band unleashing more and more intense attacks on Download Dan. Eventually Band beats him, and the ringside commentator runs in and awards him a medal.
COMMENTATOR – Ohhhhhhh, and it’s a knockout! Well done, music fans, I knew you’d do the right thing! Winks at camera
NEW VOICEOVER – Downloading copyrighted material harms independent artists. Help support art and the people that make it.
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