Indie music was orginally known as 'independent' music where the artist or band are not signed to a major label and either signed to an independent label or the band manage and promoted for themselves. This movement again mainstream music really began to surface in the 1980's in Britain and America. Indie music is usually mixed with a sub genre such as indie rock and can make it difficult to esatblish to whether a band is actually 'indie' or not.
The Smiths
The smiths are an early example of an indie band, although it is a blend of alternative style and post punk, making it hard to define them to a genre exactly. When 'This charming man' was released the band was signed to independent label Rough Trade, classifying the band as indie, as their music oppossed mainstream at the time which was mostly synth pop. The video also shows that they are indie as the video has low production value, with set in one room although the room full of flowers is effectual as it relates to Morrissey star persona. The video also uses simple camera movements such as panning shots of the band playing, not distracting the audience from the music and creating a DIY video effect.
Vampire Weekend
The Drums
However now days, indie music has developed into a more mainstream version of it's orginal self. In mid 2000's a recent surge of indie bands, consisted of the conventions of white males in the attire of skinny jeans and playing guitars, with it being the prodiment sound within the track. A DIY asetheic is still common within some videos, where they are mostly performance videos of the band. However more are becoming conceptual and bright colours are used within the costume and videos. A good example of this is Vampire weekend and The Drums. Both are bands who are all male and white and wearing the conventional attire of an 'indie band'. Both bands fuse with other genres to be labelled as 'indie rock' or indie pop', again showing that indie has more become of a style as well as the music. Both videos contain simple mise-en-scene drawing focus on the band, especially main focus on the lead singer. This is usually done via beauty shots, however in these videos, the lead singer is postioned in the foreground.
The Noisettes
A band that goes against indie conventions is The Noisettes. The lead singer is a black and female which is more rare in this genre. This song has been described as indie pop- again a sub genre although this has a 50's fusion to it. However, it also conforms to certain conventions as guitars being prominent within the performance based video. Other bands that subverts conventions are The Brunettes that feature a lead female vocalist and Operator Please which has a mixed raced lead singer and mix gender band.
Variations of the Indie genre
Indie is often fused with other genres, creating sub genres. This includes indie punk (Blood red shoes), indie folk (She & Him) and indie dance (Ladytron). The most popular sub genres are Indie rock, with artists such as the Franz Ferdinand and The Futureheads and Indie pop, including artist such as Kate Nash. Artists who genre is indie pop also tend to use electro elemtents, 'Indietronica' (Ellie Goulding/ Ladyhawke/ La Roux). We have decided to put our band Changing Modes between a fusion of indie pop and indetronica. See blog 'Sub genre:Indie pop/'Indietronica'/Changing Modes.'
The Smiths
The smiths are an early example of an indie band, although it is a blend of alternative style and post punk, making it hard to define them to a genre exactly. When 'This charming man' was released the band was signed to independent label Rough Trade, classifying the band as indie, as their music oppossed mainstream at the time which was mostly synth pop. The video also shows that they are indie as the video has low production value, with set in one room although the room full of flowers is effectual as it relates to Morrissey star persona. The video also uses simple camera movements such as panning shots of the band playing, not distracting the audience from the music and creating a DIY video effect.
Vampire Weekend
The Drums
However now days, indie music has developed into a more mainstream version of it's orginal self. In mid 2000's a recent surge of indie bands, consisted of the conventions of white males in the attire of skinny jeans and playing guitars, with it being the prodiment sound within the track. A DIY asetheic is still common within some videos, where they are mostly performance videos of the band. However more are becoming conceptual and bright colours are used within the costume and videos. A good example of this is Vampire weekend and The Drums. Both are bands who are all male and white and wearing the conventional attire of an 'indie band'. Both bands fuse with other genres to be labelled as 'indie rock' or indie pop', again showing that indie has more become of a style as well as the music. Both videos contain simple mise-en-scene drawing focus on the band, especially main focus on the lead singer. This is usually done via beauty shots, however in these videos, the lead singer is postioned in the foreground.
The Noisettes
A band that goes against indie conventions is The Noisettes. The lead singer is a black and female which is more rare in this genre. This song has been described as indie pop- again a sub genre although this has a 50's fusion to it. However, it also conforms to certain conventions as guitars being prominent within the performance based video. Other bands that subverts conventions are The Brunettes that feature a lead female vocalist and Operator Please which has a mixed raced lead singer and mix gender band.
Variations of the Indie genre
Indie is often fused with other genres, creating sub genres. This includes indie punk (Blood red shoes), indie folk (She & Him) and indie dance (Ladytron). The most popular sub genres are Indie rock, with artists such as the Franz Ferdinand and The Futureheads and Indie pop, including artist such as Kate Nash. Artists who genre is indie pop also tend to use electro elemtents, 'Indietronica' (Ellie Goulding/ Ladyhawke/ La Roux). We have decided to put our band Changing Modes between a fusion of indie pop and indetronica. See blog 'Sub genre:Indie pop/'Indietronica'/Changing Modes.'
Inspiration...
Ladyhawke
New Young Pony Club
Mystery Jets
All of the three videos have special effects that we would like to try within our video. For Ladyhawke's 'Back Of The Van' we would like to recreate the backgrounds of stars and galaxies while also practice the editing of mirroring effect. New Young Pony Club's 'We Want To', had very good mise-en-scene, where costume plays a large aspect to the video creating an 80's feel. We would also like to recreate this. Finally Mystery Jets' 'Two Doors Down' use green screen effectively of different colourful patterns which effectively creates an 80's feel to the video. We also aspire to use similar colours that is reminiscent to the New Wave/New Romantics scenes. All three heavily rely on colour to portray the 80's theme, in which we will to recreate for our video.
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