Detailed ideas

Brainstorming

 Together, Amy and I wrote down some ideas relating to stereotypical indie-pop videos and what is usually used. There is a mix as indie videos tend to be story based, which we thought would be easier to film as we wouldn't need to organise filming dates with the band, only each other. This is mostly seen in Ed Sheeran's video's, such as 'The A Team', which he only features in for about 2 seconds.
However some indie videos focus on the artist throughout the video as performance based videos are also popular amongst this genre. This links with pop videos where the artist is always the centre of attention throughout. These brainstorms leads to ideas about filming in 3 different locations: busking in town, in a car park and on the downs. This means we could make the video all about the music, which, in my opinion, is what indie-pop music is all about. Inspiration for this was videos such a Coldplay's 'A sky full of stars'.
During more brainstorming, we came up with the idea that we could film in black and white, or sepia to create an old-fashioned and more original feel and look to the video, although we agreed that this could be done in post-production and we could decide on this later.



Once we had come up with a basic storyboard idea (which we are waiting for our friend to draw for us as we want it to look as professional as possible) we came up with roles for each person on the day of filming, to organise ourselves ourselves as much as possible to create minimal stress. We also created a list of equipment that we will use so nothing gets lost and we can make sure we have everything we need. This includes a list of instruments that the band will need, and even though it is not complete on this photo, we found out later on that they simply use two acoustic guitars.






The brainstorming was really useful as it was a way of trying to organise our ideas and thoughts, and narrow them down to create a story board. We struggled a little bit as we felt we were being influenced by many artist, such as Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Coldplay, Marina and the Diamonds, the Script and many more, This made it difficult to come up with an original idea that had not already been done. Despite this difficulty, we actually found the research useful in the end as a way to inspire us, and to get a greater understanding of the way indie pop videos are framed.