My Five Potential Songs for my Music Video

Because I prefer the Indie genre of music, here are the five songs I would like to make into a video:

Florence & the Machine- Cosmic Love

The amazing beat of the drums in Florence's colourful, imaginative and allegorical song is enough to make me want to make a video of it, despite it being already a music video. The song builds up many times to the chorus, which bursts into a set of completely booming and exciting drum rhythms. The song is fantastic and fantastical.

Florence & the Machine- Howl

The perfect oppurtunity to film a video of this dark and haunting song in the woods, as it would perfectly reflect the animalistic symbolism in the song. This would be an amazing song to do a video for, and luckily it's not been made into one. So, hurrah.

Kate Bush- Them Heavy People

'Rolling the ball!' From the weird and the wonderful Kate Bush, this song is absolutely excellent. And making the video would create a strong accessible point for me: express the weirdness. Catchy, weird, symbolic and just plain fun, this song is a classic and should be listened to by everyone. If I made a video for this, then hopefully encouragement would follow.

Noah & The Whale- L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

An instantly likeable song that raises the spirit if you're feeling down. So making a video surrounding this song would require the implication of a negative atmosphere being overthrown and replaced with a positive atmosphere everytime the chorus plays. A truly remarkable song.


Of Monsters & Men- Mountain Sound

A great, merry indie song. The video for this would require a lot of nature and open spaces to be able to express the song and its harmonic and upbeat tune. This is probably the least depressing video I have considered to make haha.

   A possible, but limited option, could be 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Edvard Grieg. The complete lack of lyrics would be what would make the video limited in perspective, but it would certainly have an element of mischief and a sneaky, sly atmosphere.

One of My Originally Chosen Music Video Songs

And the chosen song is...

'THEM HEAVY PEOPLE' BY KATE BUSH

My reason for this song to be chosen for my music video is because, like I've mentioned, I can express my weird'ry' on film. The idea of somebody attempting to stay inside their head and avoid the world's indifferences with the person who is the central subject in the video is a strong point for me. The song is weird, so the video will be. The song has allegory (symbolism/meanings), so I would try to put as much of it in the video as possible so that it could reflect the song. Who are 'them heavy people'? Why was she 'hiding in a room in my mind'? It'd be the most fun song to video, but nevertheless it would also be quite challenging in terms of location and also trying to crack as much of the meanings as possible so the video would fit the song. I will start planning for my music video very soon. Here is the link for the video for 'Them Heavy People', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNtPbHkp0U 

 

"They arrived at an inconvenient time. I was hiding in a room in my mind."

Common Features of Music Videos from Independent Artists

Most Indie bands/artists seem to follow a certain common feature in their videos from several different aspects, or sub-categories. I created a one-page slide on 'Photovisi', where I included these features. They were:

Subliminal Messages
The hidden meanings, euphemisms and semantics in the video. Can be quite hard to notice.


Costume & Make-up
Alternative costumes, that seem to have a sort of 70's, hippy vibe, but not all Indie videos have this.

Hairstyles
More diverse than normal if presented as a ratio. These normally detach the Indie genre from all the other glamorous, tiring hairstyles of the mainstream music artists. This is what defines Independent music as its own style.

Locations
Regularly fields, forests, villages, locales, or anything that is either outside in the country (or a countryside feel), or in a local place.

Regionality (of the artists)
Instead of being just one nationality, Independent artists are very widespread in terms of their regionality. Wales, Iceland etc.


Imagery
Regularly surreal imagery to help with the allegorical aspects of the music videos.