Ideas for My Music Video

My Ideas for My Music Video 

First of all, after analysing the lyrics in a previous post on this blogger, I will link my video heavily with the lyrics of my chosen song "Stuey's Morris Isis". In my opinion, music videos should be used to tell the story of the lyrics, and that is what my music video will do.

Mise-en-scene, Shots and Camera Angles:

In my music video, I plan to use one, two or three locations maximum, as I feel using too many locations would be too fast for the audience to keep up, as the song is at an already fast tempo. Shooting the majority of the scenes at night would be ideal, as it would get the audience in the mood of the song, as it is about a night out; using a few establishing shots of the town in Nottingham would demonstrate this perfectly. In this way, I will be conforming to the normal Indie videos, where there is a montage of clips of the night life in certain cities around the UK. This will also entertain my target audience, as the audience for the song would be interested in night life as they go out a lot to parties and such. 

                The most obvious props that will be used are the instruments - without them, the audience will not get the feeling of tempo of the song, as they wouldn't be able to see the pace at which the song is performed. There won't be a lot of shots of the band as a whole, but there will be enough to establish who is who in the band - close ups will used in these parts of the video. Close ups will be used quite often, as they focus on specific images a lot in the lyrics, but many other camera shots and angles will be used throughout. Other props will most likely include mobile phones and cars. Props and shots similar to these images will be used:

A car is heard in the opening of the song, so a shot like this will be necessary

The kind of instruments that feature in Indie bands

There will be many close ups of the guitar in the music video

Editing:

Aside from the obvious lip syncing, the editing for my video will be quite complex, with quick cuts (which will have to be in time with the song) varying between each shot. I plan for the editing to be quite complex, but manageable with the software of iMovie at my disposal.  

This is iMovie, and the software I will be using to edit my Music Video

Sound:

I plan to re-create every sound that is included in the song I have chosen in my music video, whether that sound is diegetic or non-diegetic. For example, there is a car horn and engine ignition sound in the very beginning of the song, and I plan for that sound to be visually created in my first scene of the video.