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Initial Ideas - Indie Music Video
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Initial Ideas - Indie Music Video
Setting
- Nature
- Forests
- Water
- Sky
- Flowers
- Run-down Areas
- Broken things
- Dark colours
- Danger
- No nature
- Teenage Places
- Skate Parks
- Music Stores
- Clothing Stores
- Bedroom
- School
- Nature
Characters
- Female
- Age of target audience
- Typical Female Indie Look
- Indie Personality
- Male
- Age of target audience
- Typical male Indie Look
- Indie Personality
- Typical male Indie Look
- Age of target audience
- These both could be similar to show that indie music connects people who are similar, however, it may also be effective to have them be different - as indie is a wide genre for someone to fit into
- Female
Props
- We want to use very typical props, as we feel the indie audience will be able to relate to this better
- Guitars
- Acoustic or electric
- Vinyls
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Cameras
- Phones
- Music
- Personal Possessions
- Guitars
- We want to use very typical props, as we feel the indie audience will be able to relate to this better
Clothing
- Female
- Due to postmoderism, we wanted to include an element from another genre- which we are thinking 70s or 80s
- Dress, adds a sense of feminism too whilst being popular in those eras
- Signature piece
- Jewellery
- Object of meaning
- Female
Performance
- Very indie personality, specifically from an era
- Free
- Calm
- Happy
- However, like Lewis Watson and Kodaline's music videos, we could do the opposite
- Angry
- Physical violence
- Revengeful
- Very indie personality, specifically from an era
Narrative
- Indie music tend to be very deep with a serious or personal message behind
- Therefore, instead of doing a music video with editing on the beat or other conventions - which are highly seen in pop, we decided to create a narrative that may be personal to people
- Death
- So, by having lyrics that are generally deep, we can keep with this theme during production
- Loss of another
- Exaggerated Emotions
- Harm
- Therefore, instead of doing a music video with editing on the beat or other conventions - which are highly seen in pop, we decided to create a narrative that may be personal to people
- Indie music tend to be very deep with a serious or personal message behind
Camera Work
- Variety of shots
- Equal amount of long shots and close up shots
- Close ups add detail, which will help us include post modernism and strength into the story line
- Long shots allow us to establish a theme and highlight the genre of indie