Introduction - Idea

We have decided to use my band for our music video and have a friend fill in my position as I'll be filming with Niall. We play songs similar to 'the foals' and 'bloc party' and recognise ourselves in the genre alternative/experimental. The song that we will shoot is a song written by the band called 'Artist vs Art', it is a fast paced upbeat song with changes in tempo to give the song edge. To match the track we will use the common conventions of a music video and video the band playing from a mix of angles and tie in a number of other quirky shots of the band without instruments.

There are three possible styles of narrative for a music video, all narrative, half narrative and no narrative. Music videos with all narrative show just a storyline throughout e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF978AgLyaY - The Arctic Monkeys, View from the afternoon.

Music videos with half narrative show some storyline and some of the band playing e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrZkUQ6_r8 - The Foals, Balloons.

And finally some videos have a full narrative throughout e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-TCoFRgy0 - We are scientists, Great escape. For our music video we are planning to use the half narrative-half band shot convention to mix up it and create a more interesting and quirky feel.

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