Music Video Ideas

In my Music Video I have decided that I would like to have a story to it other than a video of whoever is in my video performing throughout the whole thing and playing instruments, because in Bastille's Music Videos normally it just has a story to it, for example in Flaws its set on a fair by a beach using actors dressed as skeletons with face paint on, then in Pompeii it is similar. Although, in Pompeii there is actually limited footage of them performing, but it is only now and again and lasts no longer than 3 seconds each time. Here are some screen shots.

 I have been looking through most of Bastille's different Music Videos to make sure that my research is correct and I am on the right tracks for my Music Video Ideas. In their Music Video Oblivion there is performance but it's part of the story in the Video because it is a girl miming to the song which is sung by a male and she is stood in the middle of a stadium which has loads of old battered racing cars driving around. So even though there is performance it's not any of the official members of Bastille, its part of the story.

The next Music Video that I looked at was 'Things We Lost In The Fire' and again this video was mainly acting with very limited performance.

Now that I have done some research, it has helped me slightly with what to do for my Music Video on the track 'Flaws' I know what type of setting that they are normally based in and what their outfits are like which has given me plenty of inspiration on what to do for my own video.

Planning Costume And Props.

                                                                    

                                                                   Costume

For costume I would like to use a similar look to something that Bastille would choose.

I have been looking on several Bastille music videos to get some inspiration on what I think would look good. In Bastilles videos the outfits are mainly plain and simple. For example in the Music Video Pompeii, the outfit that has been chosen is a simple brown leather jacket with a black top and black jeans, this means that the audience is mainly taking notice on whats happening in the video and the lyrics rather than looking at what he is wearing. 

I also looked at Bastilles video flaws which is the track that I have chosen, to see what ideas they had and get some inspiration. The outfit choice on this Music Video is slightly different to their normal Videos. They have chosen a more eye catching basketball type of jacket and a logo t-shirt.

Bastille - Flaws Lyrics Annotations

BASTILLE LYRICS ANNOTATED

I annotated the lyrics for the track that I am using Bastille - Flaws so that I had an idea on what I thought myself the Music Video and track itself was about. My idea could be a lot different to what anyone else thinks, it just helps me think of ideas for my video and what to take footage of. What I thought the Music Video basically was about was that he hides his flaws and the girl that he is singing about doesn't hide hers, she shows all her flaws "she always wears her flaws up on her sleeve" and he is basically singing explaining that he wants to show all his flaws like her he doesn't want to hide them anymore and then I think he is also saying how he wants to be with her because he says "theres a hole in my soul can you fill it can you fill it."

Audience Feedback

For my Audience Research I also made a survey on Survey Monkey to see what different genre's of music people preferred but mainly based the questions on indie/rock/pop as that is what genre the track that I have chosen for my Music Video is. Three people chose indie music as their favorite genre then the two others chose rap. Here is a few screen shots of my feedback.

Audience Research

For my Audience Research I looked on Amazon at the reviews off customers on what they thought about Bastilles Album - Bad Blood. Most of the reviews were very positive.

Whilst I was viewing Bastille's other recommendations for different albums came up which were also in the Indie genre. These recommendations included albums such as The 1975 and London Grammar.

I then looked on YouTube at some of the comments on Bastilles music video - Flaws, which is the track that I am using for my own music video. Again most of the comments and feedback were positive.

I looked on Bastilles official FaceBook page for different comments and reviews on the band themself, and the first thing that came up on the top of the page was other recommended pages that are similar to Bastille's. These included artists such as Ed Sheeran, Passenger and bands such as Imagine Dragons and Arctic Monkeys.

I decided to search for reviews on some of Bastilles concerts and the feedback was extremely positive some people even posted some videos of their own on the site to show how good the concert was. I looked on ticket master because I thought that would be where I would find the most feedback. Here are some screenshots of my re-search that I found.

Bastille - Flaws Sped Up x2

This is the track that I am going to use for my music video sped up x2.

Permission to use track for educational purposes

I sent an e-mail to Black Fox Management to request permission to use one of Bastille's songs - Flaws for my music video.