1) Our music video for the song “Party in a Forest (Where’s Laura?)” by The Wombats fits under the “indie rock” genre. We wanted to stick to typical conventions such as; having the band in casual dress, a lot of performance-based shots, and the common use of narrative.
We filmed a lot of shots of the band, including that of performance and a variety of shots of the lead singer in our boy-meets girl narrative. These shots help to promote the band’s identity, particularly that of the lead singer, who with most bands is the ‘frontrunner’ and therefore most recognisable.
We filmed a lot of shots of the band, including that of performance and a variety of shots of the lead singer in our boy-meets girl narrative. These shots help to promote the band’s identity, particularly that of the lead singer, who with most bands is the ‘frontrunner’ and therefore most recognisable.
In this post modern age it is difficult to accent individual appeal, and although we followed the typical convention of using a “boy meets girl” narrative we decided to create a whimsical twist where it is revealed that the boy and girl are in fact wombats (making a playful reference towards the band’s name).
We wanted this narrative to form a light-hearted point of interest towards the band’s representation and break the cliché of typical boy meets girl storylines. We thought this narrative would make an appropriate appeal towards our target audience of young people aged around 12-25years, as they would best appreciate this form of subtle humour. However, we found it difficult to hint towards the wombat twist throughout the video so we are unsure if this was conveyed fully to our wider audience.
We wanted this narrative to form a light-hearted point of interest towards the band’s representation and break the cliché of typical boy meets girl storylines. We thought this narrative would make an appropriate appeal towards our target audience of young people aged around 12-25years, as they would best appreciate this form of subtle humour. However, we found it difficult to hint towards the wombat twist throughout the video so we are unsure if this was conveyed fully to our wider audience.
4a) To edit our video we used IMovie software on the Apple Macintosh computers, which we had previous experience with from our AS module. IMovie was easy to operate and really drove our creativity, although we were discouraged slightly when the Macs kept crashing, which commonly resulted in data loss. Our website was created using IWeb, which we found doesn’t provide extensive design templates, so we were limited to a fairly basic design. However we are proud of our final website and conducting relevant market research and learning to use the software was a very beneficial experience. We also used Photoshop software which really drove our creativity as it has a multitude of uses and it enabled us to create image compositions and experiment with logo designs.
By Lorna.
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