Ideas for a music video

Ideas for our music video


I am focusing on the performance part of the music video making.We commonly see performance pieces from bands as this creates a more personal video , drawing the audience even closer to how to musicians are portraying their feelings through song and shots of only the band in a specific location. This type of video is commonly used by popular bands such as Paramore and their single “ignorance”.
For our own video we may include this aspect as it’s an easier way to draw in an audience and a cheaper way to create a music video for our chosen band. One idea for the music video with the inclusion of pure performance is the band in a studio performing their single without them being in a different location. This idea could be a great way to “show off “the band as the audience would be able to establish the members in the band as this would be their first debut video in front of an audience.
Another idea which we could use to help promote the band with their first video is to perform in an area which differs from a music related set such as a recording studio or within a professional setting. This could be done outdoors or in places which we tend to not relate with the music video, doing so could make our video more realistic within our budget as we do not have to spend too much on the actual making and location of the video.
Doing this would also help still create a video which gives off a professional finish as many bands such as All American Rejects and Nickelback have succeeded in this type of video, attracting a large audience and following towards their music and videos created in the performance way.
Our group believe a good way in creating a music video is to use all the instruments which you would find in the studio such as the drum kit and mics and would like to possibly incorporate this into the band music video. This could be a good idea as this would show the group as a whole without the lead singer being within the video alone or most of the time. This could be a great way in again showing the band off as a whole as it clearly shows who are actually in the band and what their role is.
These ideas could be used to create this video as specific aspects of these ideas above could be used to create a professional music video for the band. An important part of exploring different ideas for our music video is to also view other music videos which are affective and are professional. As many have a high budget we will simply not have funding for extravagant effects and sets so we have to find a solution for this issue.
After viewing many indie and rock bands, we found that there are many ways to help create a solution for this problem as we could use regular places to possibly shoot the video such as outdoors or within a vehicle. Whilst observing many amateur successful videos I found that the group ‘feeder’ used this method to help create videos which were cheap to produce but still had similar effects to a more expensive video.
Many of these ideas above may be adopted or suggested for our final video. We have covered possible ways to get round an issue as the music video must be inexpensive but still be professional. Whilst analysing videos from artists such as nickelback we have a clear understanding of what our group are able to produce and hopefully use similar types of camera shots and ideas to create our own music video.