Initial Thoughts And Ideas

[Points on mindmap:]

Albums:
(visuals and the points about them)

-'Nothing But Thieves'
                -(a more abstract album cover)
-'Ancient Lights' and 'Silhouettes'
               -(Images that signify the theme of aesthetic of the album)
-'Truth Is A Beautiful Thing' and 'All We Know Of Heaven All We Need Of Hell'
               -(Features the band itself: in a location, in an abstract image, head shots)
-'Up In Flames'
               -(symbolic, simple album cover)


Artists:

-Pvris [IR] [E]

-Foals [DP] [IR]

-London Grammer [E] [DP]
-Nothing But Thieves [IR]
-Arcade Fire [IR]
-Novo Amor [DP]
-Florence and the Machine [IR]
-Allman Brown [DP]
-Ruelle [E] [P]
-Bastille [P]
-Of Monster and Men [DP]
-Aquilo [E] [DP]

Specifically ____ Indie pop

[P] Pop

[IR] Indie Rock

[E] electronic

[DP] Dream Pop

Songs:

- Pvris: "What's Wrong"

- Nothing But Thieves: " If I Get High"

- Aquilo: "You Won't Know Where You Stand

- Bastille: "Glory"

- Florence and the Machine: " Shake It Out"

Conventions :

 (Of Music Videos) 

- Imagery that complements the lyrics (symbolically or playing to the narrative)
- They can feature other characters of muses separate from the artist/'s themselves.

- The pace of the editing in these music videos tends to vary and mirror that of the tempo of the track it is accompanying

-They may show a short clip that features out of the music track, this could include dialogue or an introduction to characters.

-The artist are also framed singing along to the song as the camera cuts between them and the narrative/story

-Some show 'real life' narrative (e.g. home life, relationships...) whereas others chose to represent there song's meaning more symbolically

Summary:

-Many of the music videos in this genre feature some kind of narrative or symbolic representation that the artist wants to portray to there audience.

-Themes include: Love, Loss, Isolations from 'normal' society, freedom.

-They either feature the artist within the narrative ( a personal story in which they are sharing to there audience) or they are singing a song that is about a character that we would see featured in the video