New Twitter Buttons
I added a couple of twitter Hyperlink buttons to mine and Max's Twitter accounts. This should hopefully increase web traffic to them and allow a greater link betwen the blog and our accounts so that we seem like a more complete media unit to any external readers of the blog/ fans of our music video production.
Music Video ideas
This is The video for Vampire weekends song "A-Punk". As you can see this video is comprised of a single scene and is filmed with actions going in time to the music. I think we should utilize scene changes in our music video as it is hard to make a successful video with only one scene, however i think that some elements of our video could be in time to the music, however we should do it with discretion and keep it simple, i.e. scene changes could be effected by different parts of the song or simple actions like doors closing, but making the whole video in time would be far too complex. However as can be seen above, a very popular indie band is using the effect so this should be a cue for us to try and incorporate it.
This is the video for Rebellion (lies) by The Arcade Fire. This video incorporates a narrative that includes live performance along side a storyline that depicts the the songs message and theme. As well as using camera blur effectively
Filming idea
This is something that I think we should do for our local beauties song "souls on fire". As far as i can tell from my listening to the song the theme is about a strained relationship following the boys side of the story. I think we could do something like the camera following fiona (playing the Girl) going through the motions of a break-up and being surrounded by her soon to be ex-boyfriend i.e. Max, Jack or myself playing guitar and lip-syncing in places around her house (sitting on her sofa) , connoting the theme that it is hard to forget a loved one, whilst also connoting that the boy is not over her yet by staying around her. However I thin that we should play on the theme that the boy is not actually there, but rather just following her in her day to day life like a ghost. This could convey the message of the song whilst utilizing the aforementioned effects.
A good example of the sort of Narrative i mean would be this video
Simple Plan - When I'm Gone
I couldn't find a video that had embedding code allowed so you'll have to make-do with a link Sorry. Although this video isn't indie, or anywhere near our genre it still conveys the basic theme that i was trying to describe earlier. However I think our music video should be more low-key and really play on it In keeping with the Independant roots of the indie genre. i.e a video set in a house/flat with parts of live performance included when the boy is on camera and boy and girl are singing in the 'local Beauties' song, we could do the latter like a flashback to the better parts of the relationship between the two characters. With the ending of the music vido being the girl sitting next to the boy playing guitar and singing along with him, connoting to the audience that they are back together.
If we do this closely following conventions of the indie genre, i.e. wearing the same style of clothes/make up and in the right setting this sort of video could appeal to a teenage audience predominantly as they stereotypically relate to relationships as a theme more than other age groups.
Another idea we could add to this outline would be use of black and white and colours, we should definatley experiment with using black and white in certain parts of the music video, using it to denote certain moods that the girl is experiencing, or anything else the rest of the media group has to suggest, but it could definatly be worth looking into, we could even have it at certain points of action.
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