List of Props, Costume and Make-Up and Equipment

Location Shots

All of these locations fit well with our genre as they are typically thought about when with young teenagers, which is the main audience of our chosen genre of Indie Rock. Also, some music videos within the genre include these locations.

Storyboard Animatic

Permission for filming and locations

Team Storyboarding

Teacher Assessment

Lyric Annotation

 The Maccabees - Pelican

Concept

Before having a group discussion this is what I thought we could do for our Music Video:

Costume: smart jeans, checkered shirt/smart shirt/polo shirt

Locations: practice room

Narration: main singer gradually getting older throughout the song

Props: guitars, drum kit, microphone, microphone stand

Lighting: High and low key lighting used throughout the video


After a discussion and mind-map created by the group we came up with our final ideas and agreed with what we believe will work well for our work.

Photoshop Practice

Image Annotation

After thoroughly researching the genre, we have learned that bands that belong to the indie rock genre tend to dress quite casually, with a modern twist. This is incredibly useful to us, as we can easily attain these items of clothing and therefore can replicate the Indie image. An extremely common visual element associated with the majority of Indie bands would be skinny/drain pipe jeans, therefore we will definitely include this in the performance elements of our music video. 

While researching Indie fashion we also discovered that denim is a common feature of popular Indie Group's attire. This also conforms to the casual Indie look, as the faded denim gives this "worn/faded" appearance that matches our initial ideas. They are also incredibly affordable, and easy to attain. The other image shows perhaps a more sophisticated look, although it can also enhance the "worn" image. We are considering using a similar item as many ambient Indie Groups feature them and it conveys what we wish to represent.

The images below show footwear that we believe helps us as an audience distinguish a band as being part of the Indie Rock genre. This combined with the previous elements would suggest to the audience that we are from the Indie genre, and that is obviously what we wish to convey.

The instruments below are typical instruments used by Indie Rock musicians, especially the Fender Telecaster. The implementation of hollow body guitars also adds an elegant look that conforms to the relatively smart attire of the band members. I feel that all of these elements will easily help us achieve the casual/smart Indie appearance we originally aimed to achieve.  As one of the members of my group owns one of these guitars they have decided that we use his guitar so we fit in well with the indie rock genre.

Song Details

As a group we have decided to do the song Pelican by The Maccabees for our music video.  We chose this song because the band are British and also fits with our genre.  All of our group liked this song and felt we would be able to make a music video which could get us high grades from this music video.  This song currently does not have an official music video which gives our group a blank canvas to work from.  We chose the band The Maccabees because they are a British band and we all enjoy

Technical Tutorials

Roles

Becka:
In the music video my focus is on the mise-en-scene and lighting to ensure that they fit with our chosen genre. Also, I shall be very involved with creating our CD cover as I have experience on the macs working well and efficiently

Jamie:

Jamie shall be in charge of props ensuring they fit with the genre and also he shall direct many shots knowing what is happening and when throughout.








Ben:

Ben shall be in charge of locations, making sure each location chosen to use in our music video relates to other videos of our chosen genre. He shall also help direct many shots.







Emma:
Emma shall be in charge of costuming, making decisions on what the actors in the video shall wear so it suits the genre.








As a group, we shall all be involved with filming shots, deciding on what shot type and angles to use and also with the editing when all the filming has been completed.

As a group we discussed what different roles there are and we decided on our separate roles by playing to peoples strengths to ensure we can make the best music video for our final product.

Initial Ideas

This is a mind map of my groups initial ideas. After talking about each different option we have chosen the genre of Indie Rock use for our Music Video. I feel that this was best for our group as the majorit of my group listen to or have heard of many artists from the Indie Rock genre and watched many music videos from the genre.

Audience Research 2

From this information I know that people expect band performance, casual clothing and lip syncing in a music video, which will shall include in our music video so that it appeals to our audience.  Also, many people said they enjoy music videos by You Me At Six so we could take influences from their music videos to appeal to our audience.