Narrative for 'I Need a Dollar'

The idea is to have a single protagonist throughout the music video. At the beginning of the video she will be working in a steady job with lots of labour to accompany the lyrics of the song at the beginning:

 "Its been a long old troublesome road".

Then we plan on acting out the girl getting fired using the exact words from the song:

Boss - "I'm sorry we won't be needing your help no more"

Girl - "Please mister boss man I need this job more than you know"

[then the boss will give her her final 'paycheck' and send her on her way]





Unfortunately the rest of the song is very melancholy as he sings:


"Who can help me take away my sorrow"

"I had some good old buddy his name is whiskey and wine"

This is not the message we want to pass onto others, instead we decided to juxtapose the lyrics with positive ways to make make money for example busking, washing cars and cleaning windows etc. So the girl still needs money but she is doing active positive things to make her money rather than just sitting around moaning about not having any, like in the song.