Examining shots and their contents and how they fit with our genre conventions, indie pop 80’s synth has shown me that you don’t need a moving camera, it is about what is happening in the frame. Editing is a crucial aspect of music video making. I now know that a sloppy edit can remove all value to a production and that it lets down the cinematographer hugely if the edit is bad because the great shots (if shot well are just thrown together.
We have really put a magnifying glass up to our genre in this task, helping us to further progress when building our star image and guiding us to pick out what they will do and wear in the process.
Conventional narratives of our genre are most commonly love stories of sadness. Sometimes bands in peculiar locations in trouble with an enemy force to create a sense of story. Sometimes the narrative would be a protagonist on a journey and the genre comes in through their weird experiences through a repertoire of elements such as love interests, odd looking people and antogonists.