Planning - 5

We have decided to change song's to the Strokes 'Someday'. During this planning session we decided what would be conventional of a for our new genre and what our audience would expect to see. We saw that we would keep our initial idea of having the band playing with various lighting and enabling close-ups of the band. We have also come up with our narrative, which shall be the band looking back at their day out a realising that they did barely anything.

Costumes



We decided to wear a bomber jacket. If we wore hoodies it doesn't reflect our genre and it would revert to more mainstream genre such as the rap genre. Therefore wearing hoodless jackets reflects our indie rock genre because it is not mainstream.

We also wont be wearing the exact same clothes because that could portray we that we are a boy band.

We are wearing casual clothes such as plain t-shirts and casual trainers to reflect our age.

Our intial pitch

Our initial pitch:

We intend to do a music video for the song 'Someday' by the Strokes. The song lyrics have connotations of looking back on the past and waiting for something to give in their life; something that will help us complete a vital section of a music video - visuals matching the lyrics. We intend for there to be two aspects to our music video; the first being the band playing and the second a subtle storyline. Both these aspects we see as being conventional of a garage rock music video. The band playing in the studio will enable us to give close-ups and convey that we are talented at playing instruments. The subtle storyline will help us to keep our audience entertained and create a persona for the band; our audience will be expecting this.

We shall wear casual clothing, as to maintain our carefree image of the band. This will be from plain white t-shirts and jeans and hoodless jackets and trainers. Dressing smartly will not match our genre and our audience will not be expecting this; neither will they expect us to wear hoodies, as they are too mainstream. The whole image is based upon not trying to be seen as mainstream, but more indie and casual.

We intend to film the band going on a day out, in which reflecting on it, they barely did anything and wasted the day away. This conveys the lyrics, where they are looking back on the past and wondering where they went wrong. The song is also about youth and having fun, we will incorporate this into our storyline as we believe that this something our audience will expect and will appreciate.

Influential Music Videos

The Libertines -  Time For Heroes





This video share many themes with ours as well as it being in the same genre of Garage Rock. The video also shows the band in their daily life, as will ours. The video creates the image that the band are against the rules and rebellious (such as jumping over barriers) and gives off an energetic, feel good vibe to the audience. The bands actions are also laddish, which helps the audience empathise with them and establish a greater relationship between the two. We will try to recapture the laddish theme by re-enacting different scenarios in several settings. The video is also shot on the streets, as will ours be, which again creates intimacy between audience and artist due to the fact that the audience can relate to the band being on a street. A close relationship is also created between the band on screen through the bands chemistry and their actions. There are also shots of drugs and alcohol, which reflect the rock 'n roll lifestyle, which we will not copy but we can recreate through other shots. All though we liked other features of the video such as the split screen we decided against it as we want more focus on individuals.

Influential music video

Don Broco - You Wanna Know

This video, I believe, has some aspects that would be relevant in the making of our music video. For a start, the genre is the same, so there is a performance aspect, which I believe will be influential to my group. The band are incredibly enthusiastic through this video, which helps them to give a convincing performance; we will have to do the same. Their performance conveys their passion for the song and the lyrics, something we should copy. The guitarists and the drummer look convincing, as they look as if they are actually playing, something that a enthusiastic performance would give. The close-ups of the lead-singer are also something we will have to replicate, as it enables the audience to get close with their star. It also helps transmit emotions to the audience, something that is very typical of a rock song. We also are planning to have different lighting in the background, to add various effects to our music video and make it more entertaining. We plan to have a silhouette of the band playing, as having the band playing is something conventional to a rock song. In this video there is very interesting lighting that creates almost the effect we are after; this is what made it an inspirational video for us. The lighting can be used to resemble the mood, and in this song the lead-singer is giving a very emotional performance. The red background conveys his anger, whilst the blue conveys his sadness, which is very effective as it helps add emotion to the song and a persona to to the band.

Garage Rock

Garage Rock:

Garage rock has become hugely popular in the UK over the past 40 year, since it began in the USA and Canada during the 60's. The sub-genre was formed on the basis of raw rock'n'roll and has a aggressive and unsophisticated feel, making songs in the this genre fairly heavy-going. 'The British Invasion' of the US during the 60's, was influenced by garage rock and allowed for the genre to receive world-wide attention. The genre is closely related to punk rock, as it contains similar aspects of the genre; it contains its raw sound, image and sometimes the meaning behind the lyrics. Newer bands have adapted these characteristics and have developed them into the modern day; bands such as 'The Strokes', 'The Arctic Monkeys' and 'The Libertines' have all helped maintain the genre's image. However, the British interpretation can be seen as more political and demonstrative, whilst the American view is more about life in general, such as 'The Strokes' song 'Sometime' is about wasting the time away and looking back into the past.

Change in song

We decided to change the initial song 'London Calling' by The Clash to 'Someday' by The Strokes. We decided to change the song due to us feeling that 'London Calling' was too much of an iconic song which would make it harder to break away from the original image. As we did not want to recreate we decided to change the song. As well as this we also felt that the topics of 'London Calling' were too heavy for our music video and we felt the issues raised in the song (issues such as Nuclear threats emerging from the Cold War) would be hard to convert into a video. All though these issues could be modernised there is not a lot we could translate the issues into.

We have changed the song to 'Someday' by The Strokes, as it is more relatable and we could translate more of themes of the song into our video. It is also more modern, meaning that ideas of the song would be easier to represent.