Professional music videos - ideas

Band : Lostprophets
Song: Last Train Home
Album: Start Something
Year: 2004

We discussed a few ideas and decided that we wanted to have people running to get to a secret band performance. We chose to look at this video as the narrative is kind of similar as it has people driving around to find a secret gig of the band performing on the back of a truck. It also has performance and narrative combined together which we definatly want to use, we decided that we want to have a video in this kind of style because we don't want to do ONLY narrative or do ONLY performance.

I think the idea of having people trying to get to a band performance is effective because it means that we can film our idea in a wide variety of different locations and it will all blend together quite well. It also means that we can have a short narrative without it being the main focus of the video like some other genres of video which are very much narrative based with performance only a side feature.

Band: You Me At Six
Song: Gossip
Album: TBC
Year: 2008

This video is mostly performance based rather than including much narrative but we found it helpful for our video. This is because the video is filmed in the bands house and this is what we were thinking about doing for our idea.. This video uses lots of different camera angles which could help us with our own ideas, and although we wont include the lead singer of the band walking around numerous areas with the camera, we do want to incorporate lots of different angles. This video has a handheld feel to it which we will not be doing. We will be following the group of people that are trying to get to the gig around, we could use a tripod or hold the camera really low to give different effects. We don't think we could do angles from above unless we go in a building and hold the camera from upstairs as we do not have all the equipment to do it otherwise. And when the band are performing we do not just want to use straight forward angles when filming the band performing as it will look dull and boring.