Inspiration and how it makes an Indie music video

As a group we discussed what our inspiration was. What sort of different conventions in music videos that we saw we wanted in out music video. And how they were in Indie videos.
Inspiration : Overlays
Holding up posters
Stalking

A music video takes months to edit before itis shown on our TVs, this is just the same for us, it will take us a long time to edit the music video. We don't want to edit it the same way as everybody's, making our video seem the exact same to others and"typical". To get away from this opinion we are going to use overlays.
We looked at Overlays in Pixie Lott- Its all about tonight. She uses overlays to show the location of the video and herself, this adds something to the video that the audience do not usually see. This will keep them interested in the video.
The use of overlays adds a graceful pace of editing to the video. We hopeto use overlays in our music video although most of our song is fast pace, on the more slow pace I feel that overlays will have a huge effect.

After looking at overlays I also looked at the idea of holding up posters in the music video. As our video emphasis on the idea of stalking and paranoia we felt that holding up posters would be a great way of showing the actors and actresses feelings and getting points across to the viewers in a different way rather then just acting it out. We looked at bands such as The Fray and Sugar Babes, these bands hold up posters in their songs.
Sugar Babes- Ugly in this video they hold up posters saying "BEAUTIFUL"
We will be holding up posters saying things like "State of flux" and "wanted" to captivate the audience.




We looked at the sense of stalking for our video. We feel that the idea of stalking, paranoia and vulnerability will add to the lyrics that are sung. We will have an actress stalking an actor. We want the video to be about broken relationships and not being able to get over things.
We looked at the idea of stalking in Twilight and films that involved relationships that were over.

Brain storm of INDIE

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Indie- what is an Indie video??????

An Indie video is defined by the clothes that the actors wear-

- Skinny jeans

- Parker coats

- Checked shirts

The actions that take place-

-taking drugs

-smoking

-heart-brake/vulnerability and paranoia

The pace of the editing -

-not fast like RNB rap

- Not slow and happy like POP

Conventions of a INDIE music video

Indie: In an indie music video there is often a mixture of narrative and performance and sometimes the whole band performs such as in the music video "OLYMPIC AIRWAYS" by Foals and other times just the main vocalist sings.
When Indie music videos do have a narrative they are often quite symbolic and do not amplify the lyrics.In an Indie music video there is:
- Special effects are sometimes used.
-There is a variety of close ups to show the main artist singing and other band mates performing as well as wide shots of the whole band.
-The colour of the video changes depending on the lyrics of the song and the tempo of the music it can be bright, dark and sometimes black and white.
-Editing is usually quite fast paced, the cuts are quick.
-The band wears casual clothing, clothing that only suits them.