Thursday 6 October 2011

Conventions of the Indie genre


Conventions of the Indie/Rock Genre
  • Mainly of the Indie/Rock Genre videos consists of medium close-ups of the Main artists face
  • Some medium close-ups of the rest of the band faces/instruments.
  • Medium long-shots of individual band members, to show what they are doing. For example, when an individual is playing an instrument such as a guitar, piano or drums the focus of the camera is solely placed on them.
  • Generally 80% of the music video is of the band members, either performing individually or as a group, while the other 20% is a narrative that has been built around the lyrics.
  • This genre of music videos has a huge variety of conventions, the hue can be dark, bright or black and white depending on the tone of the lyrics.
  • The clothing that they wear usually seem to be dark with skinny jeans

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