Live Performance in Music Videos

As half of our footage for our music video is going to be of a band playing at a party, I thought it would be a good idea to look into the feature of bands playing within a music video for part of my research. 
This is a common thing that is seen in many Indie music videos. This could probably be down to the fact that the main feel of the genre is that the music was never about success and fame, but more about the artist's passion and love for music to be shared with an audience. 

A great example of this is The Vaccines music video for If You Wanna. As a new band releasing their first video, their budget may have been quite low, therefore the music video doesn't feature anything too complex. Yet the use of lighting is really effective, starting off with slow colour changes, to quicker flashes depending on the pace of the music. This works really well to make the music video still entertaining without any expensive effects or props. The composition of these shots below is also quite interesting. The wide shots show all of the band, but not their feet or the floor of the stage.

The main focus of this video is the lead singer, with multiple close up shots of his face throughout the video taken from different angles. The other band members are mostly shown in mid shots, again from a range of different angles. Shots from behind or the side look really effective. A few oblique shots are also seen throughout. The wide shot (above) is the only shot type in which the entire band are shown together on one frame, however a few mid shots throughout show a couple band members in the same frame.
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Quick cuts are used throughout the video to show random close up shots of the instruments as they are being played. This is a feature that we are thinking of replicating in our own video. The top shot on the photo to the left of the guitar looks really effective from that angle.





(Print screens were edited together using Photoshop)