Codes and Conventions of the Indie Genre

In order to create a Music video of the Indie genre you need to know the codes and conventions. After researching these are what we have found out:

• Often has a narrative.
• Sometimes the artist doesn't feature in the video.
• Occasionally has live performances.
• Is often Arty, Symbolic, Creative.
• Instruments are often seen.
• Often wears black and white. 

Filming

 On Thursday we found a location with a drum kit and so we managed to film  a couple of scenes.
We forgot the origonal camera we were working with and so we had to use another one which was better quality and a better focus so they animation once edited did look good but this could be a problem when it comes to putting the wholse sequence together as it will be a different resolution compared to the other scenes we have   filmed.

We managed to film three different key scenes which is a plus meaning the day was successful.

Thursday 21st November 2013 - Animatics feedback and viewing.

In todays lesson we did a screening of our animatics. The feedback we received was mostly positive which was incredibly pleasing for us. Most people said to us that they liked the timing and the pace and also they really liked how we included most Goodwin's Analysis.

Assigning roles

Locations

It was decided that my role in the group would be locations considering most of the scenes we have filmed have been at my house and to keep it consistent it would be best to carry on filming here. I have also been arranging the other places we can film as not all can be filmed where i live. As part of my job I have made sure we could film at another persons house who own a drum kit and also managed to find time to film in the music room when there have been no classes.

Louise - Editor
Nicola - Cinematography

Inter-textual Reference - Italian Job

After the meeting with Leane we decided to make one of the scenes an inter textual reference with the Italian job. This will also help us apply our Goodwins theory. After filming I decided to get an opinion to see if  you can tell and its obvious.

What are your thoughts on this scene? What do you think it represents?

•  I really like how the cars go in a line together, I think it looks really cool and neat. It reminds me of the Italian job even if the original didn't go across a fire place.

Schedule

 This is our schedule to ensure that we get every bit that we need to film, filmed. This way nothing will get left out and all the footage will be under control.

Tuesday 19th November 2013

Today we had free lessons so we managed to film two important scenes in our music video and then go back to school and edit them. It was a successful day to say the least as we managed to get a lot of work done within about three/four hours.