Music Video Preperation - Hair Styles.

Below are three hairstyles I would like to display in my music video. The link that all these three styles are how they are messy and careless styles, or another word to describe them would be 'bedhead' this term meaning, it looks like they've just woken up and therefore not altered there hair from the sleep. This style of being slightly careless and grubby looking, fits in perfectly with the codes and conventions for my indie genre music video. 

Music Video Preperation - Costume.

In order for my music video to look typically Indie, I am wanting a particular style in which my band members can portray this genre look. These pictures of some outfits below are in fashion at the moment. 

All the shirts above are example's of the costume I would to put my band members to wear. I am trying to achieve a particular look of the stereotypical look of an Indie / Rock band member. These shirts are all typical of an Indie / Rock. The fashion for this stereotype is to wear your top button to the top. 

 

Here are some examples of some coats which would look good on my band members. The first, Parker jacket is something that has been in fashion particularly from the 60's. The leather jacket is abit more aimed at the Rock Genre. The duffle coat again links with the typical sterotype of what a band member in this genre would wear. 

Skinny jeans or straight legs again are orginally coming into fashion in the 60's, and have come back in fashion. There usually worn less tightly at the bottom of the trousers so it gives more of a straight leg look. 

Boat and Desert shoes again have come back into fashion from around the 60's. Whereas the Vans are more modern but still in fashion. 

There is a pattern with the clothes as they are usually from the 60's when they first started the fashion. This gives an old fashioned almost vintage feel about it. 

Music Video Preperation - Setting.

Here are my initional ideas for the locations of where I am going to film. As you can see I the interier is  one being the young boy's bedroom, in which the change is going to happen between the main singer, being a young boy to an young adult. The other shots of in the street is the domiant location and most of the music will be filmed out on the street, where the lead singer rides his bike through the streets. 

PreProduction Details.

In order to get organised for my music video shoot one, I sent an email out to the four band members asking letting them know the time and place, what to wear and also what props they will need to bring if necessary. One of the boys told me the night before that he couldn't make it and after re-arranging the shooting date twice already, I had to go without having four band members to having three. 

A couple of days before filming I made a folder and printed out four sheets with the lyrics on in size 12 font. I did this so all of my band members and me can have a copy of it, and when they were sat on the rocks, they had the sheets hidden in the rocks, just incase they forgot the lyric's. This was a useful way and also a way to take less time filming. And another copy of the lyric's but in a big font. I printed the big font out just incase they didn't have there sheets on them and I would then need to hold the lyrics up. I found that I didn't use this big font as after my band members had listened to the music they seemed to remember the lyric's quite well. 

In order for my band to recognise the tempo of the music in order for them to sing in time, I recorded the song from my computer to my phone, I didn't download the song as it wasn't free. This took a couple of attempts as there was a fussy sound from the background when I recorded it. I felt that this wasn't a good idea, and I should of just downloaded the song, as when I played it to the band it was too quite. So Matt, had to go on YouTube on his phone and play the song that way. The problem with this was it was taking along time loading the music video and if I wanted to stop the song and play it again, we would have to wait for it to load then play it from the start, this was extremely time consuming, and It would of been better if I would of brought some portable speakers, so the band members could hear the song, and if I downloaded it, then that would of been alot quicker. 

The previous night before filming I went to check my camera, and it wasn't working. And then realised the battery had broken from the previous time I used it. But luckily we have another camera, It is lighter and also alot better quality so I had to charge my camera up the night before, and in the morning I turned it on and checked that it was working. 

Influences - Simular artist image.

The libertines are an English band that include four members, Carl Barat (guitar / vocalist), Pete Doherty (guitar/ vocalist), John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell. Doherty and Barat created the band in London 1997, and they both were the main songwriters also. 

Around the 2000's the band started to gain popularity but this was always limited as the genre is specific. But they manged to gain a  No.1 for there album and a No.2 for there single. In 2004 there album self-titled achieved the rating of second best album of the year. Although there great musical success, they were also put down by Doherty's well known drug addiction, which later caused the band to spilt, although he claims it wasn't due to his drug addiction, but because of the bad relationship he had between Barat. In 2010 the band reunited to preform a special performance at the Reading and Leeds Festival, they got good publicity and a positive reaction from the audience. 

By watching and listening to the The Libertines - Dont Look Back Into the sun, I can notice some simularities between them with the Stockers! I noticed that both songs start and continue to use a fast upbeat tempo thoughout. The intruments of drums and bass guitar are most significant and also the way the songs are sung, it's almost as if there speaking or not holding on to long notes, keeping them short, rather then holding onto a note for a long time. They both share the same music genre and therefore follow simular conventions.