Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Task 5 - Research into Indie rock

Indie rock is an alternative rock genre from the UK founded in the 1980s, examples of Indie rock bands past and present are Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes and the original main founders of Indie rock: The Smiths.

Typically in Indie rock music videos the band/actors are dressed in dark and casual clothes, for example in The Kooks music video of 'Naive' the main character is dressed in a black leather jacket and black jeans.



 In Indie rock music videos they also don't have a variety of props, the common prop that they use in the videos are their own instruments such as guitars, drums, bass and microphone. A good example of this being used is in The Smiths song 'This Charming Man'.



The way that the actors convey their emotions in their music videos is very minimalistic as they keep a straight face and don't show how they are feeling. However you can see emotion in their faces in some Indie rock artists music video as they focus on the narrative of the video and therefore need to show emotion. An example of this is in The 1975's music video 'Chocolate' as the lead singer can be seen conveying emotion in his face when he is with the mystery woman.


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