Indie

Black and white

Close-ups

Emotion

Guitar, drums, singing from band members

Band or a band performing

Casual clothing-Jeans and top Messy hair, casual look

Dark lighting, made to look naturally there

Long shots, of different locations. Normally artist is walking

Quite narrative

Conventions of the ‘Indie’ Genre

There are a lot of close up shots to represent emotion. Normally the artists are singing about something that is close to them, therefore the video which uses close-ups emphasises this. When there are long shot it’s to show the location. Often the video changes scene 3 o4 times , and if they are outside then it’s the artist walking around the streets.

The song ‘Maverick Sabre-Look what I’ve done’ is classed as part of the genre of indie, soul and RnB. I’m going to research into the main conventions of Indie.

A lot of the songs have strong meanings. Facial expressions show this, another way that does this Is black/white. As the colour is mono-tone, the video has a sad presence. The clothing is casual and the artists aren’t dressed up into a sort of costume, they look as if they are wearing what they would if they weren’t on camera.

Scene’s are normally dark/shadowy or made to look as if the lighting would normally be like that (As If they haven’t added extra light). In a lot of the videos the artist/ performer isn’t singing at the camera. Therefore it seems that in the video, they are support to act like the camera isn’t there. Not obviously performing kind of effect.

Location-LONG SHOT, SHOWS THE LOCATION OF A CLUB.

LONG SHOT, SHOWS THE LOCATION OF AROUND THE

STREETS.

OUTSIDE, SLEEPING ON A BENCH.

COURT-ROOM. OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT SHOWS EVERYONE IN THE SCENE.

CostumesCASUAL CLOTHING, HOODIE’S AND JEANS.

CASUAL CLOTHING, COAT AND SHIRT.

SLEEPING BAG AND SMALL AMOUNT

CLOTHES- EMPHASISES POOR.

SMARTLY DRESSED, FITS LOCATION OF COURT ROOM.

Shot types-WIDE SHOT,SHOWS PEOPLE IN THE

SCENE AND CLOTHING.

CLOSE UP, TO PORTRAY EMOTION

CLOSE UP-SHOWS HOW SOMEONE IS FEELING.

LONG SHOT TO SHOW EVERYONE IN THE SCENE.