Initial Ideas

As we have chosen a song that fits in the genre of alternative/Indie, many of the shots seen in the promos are that of the performer him/herself either on their own of playing an instrument. Acoustic artists tend to focus more on the music rather than putting on a big performance. We hope we can do this for our very own video--have a simple, strip down, raw live performance, this represents that they are true musicians not just a pretty face compared to the pop genre--where big level dance routines and miming is popular. We really don't want to copy this convention instead use influences from the Indie genre in particular the performance scenes. We had the idea to feature them in a real gig environment, so we could portray the real atmosphere to the audience.
We hope the mise-en-scene in our promo will be quite simple, keeping the main focus on the song and the performer, costumes are kept as real as possible, and the main props used are the instruments being played, again we are trying to keep the credibility of the artist.
The locations we disscused for our video tended to be quite isolated locations, the use of the woods, parks large outdoor spaces reminds the audience of the idea behind the lyrics. The idea of having a party outdoors would be perfect for the song, as it gives themes of summer, fun, laughing and dancing. This lead us to the idea of filming at a bonfire seeing the colours of the fire against the black background would be a beautiful shot. This is a popular intital idea within the group which we hope to develop futher as we start planning.
 We want to create lighting that will focus on the important aspects of the narrative and the band. We thought about having spotlighting to create more intense emotion, or maybe fitting our song more having a brighter lighting creating a lighter mood--more happy go lucky idea.
We hope to use a range of different shot types throughout our music video, close ups and reactions shots can be used to put across emotions, however long shots and establishing shots are used to create an atmosphere for the mise-en-scene. This will not only show our developed skills working with a camera but add a modern and unique spin on our production that really represents what we and the band stand for.