Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

1. music video

   • Indie rock
     • Arctic Monkeys
     • The Kooks
     • The Killers
     • Oasis
     • Potential target audience - 16/17 years old

2. Stereotypes of indie rock music videos

   • Heavily feature the band playing music
   • B&W colour/tinted filter
   • Symbolism
     • symbolism of heartbreak
     • symbolism of love
     • symbolism of teens/youth culture/stereotypes
     • we will analyse the lyrics of the song to create symbols that make links between the lyrics and the visuals - this links to theory
   • sensitive narrative

3. Shot ideas

   • Shots of moving clouds
   • Moving traffic - congestion, busy
   • Shots of artist singing, playing by the fire
   • Mostly shot outside to make the setting look naturalistic - not staged

4. Lewis Watson - Calling

   • 2 main characters to narrate
     • girl and boy
       • girl has a sense of mischief and aura about her, boy is the one chasing her
       • boy could walk along empty streets with his guitar
     • Story telling narrative throughout the video
       • Narrative could follow a story of the teens to represent youth culture
   • Mise-en-scene
     • cider can
     • smoking
       • drugs
     • youth culture
       • mise-en-scene to correlate to conventions of the genre
     • garages
       • urban
       • boy playing the guitar
     • graffiti
   • film in a city/town
     • open area - panning shots and natural lighting