Initial ideas on my own music video

Although we are yet to have decided on a song to do, I would personally like to do a video for an indie song. There are a number of reasons for this, such as:

• The bands are usually either unsigned or signed to an independent record label (where the word indie comes from) so there is a much larger chance of getting the agreement of the record company to make the video.
• The settings of the videos are often inner cities/suburbs, in order to make sure the bands aren't shown as having got too big for themselves. This is helpful because we will have very little, if any, money to make the music video with, so we need a setting which can be easily obtained.
• There are few genre characteristics, other than a DIY production quality, so we will still be able to make a video which differs largely from other videos within the genre.

Some initial ideas I have had is a video which splits between shots of the artist performing and them in their "day-to-day" life, as a common characteristic of indie videos is showing the artists as being ordinary people. Additionally, if we choose to make a video for an artist who we know personally, such as Rat Boy, then we will be able to get him to actually star in the video, which will result in a much higher quality of lip syncing.

Update: Since posting the first ideas which we had about the video, we have since decided on a song and a general theme which we want the video to have. The song is called Trials of the Past by SBTRKT, which I believe is a suitable song as it doesn't have an official music video, is by a British artist, and the record label, Young Turks, are easily contactable in order to gain permission to use their song.

 

In terms of initial ideas, we have decided that the video is going to have a psychological horror influence and to be filmed in black and white. We have also chosen various locations in which to film the video, including an abandoned house, a woods, and a bedroom. In terms of characters, we are only going to include a single male character, although his appearance will differ when he is playing the ghosts who are haunting him.