Initial Music Video Ideas

Initial Music Video Ideas;

After doing research into the Pop Rock genre and Coldplay themselves, we came up with a number of ideas that could potentially be used to create a music video within this chosen genre. The majority of the ideas that we came up with used generic convention that are generally seen within this genres music videos, so a lot of this initial ideas could be used within are actual music video and still convey the generic conventions. 

• Performance shots- After researching into a variety of Pop Rock and also Coldplay's music videos, i found that the majority of them had some kind of performance scenes/shots within them of either the main artist or the overall band. This is seen a number of times within other Coldplay music videos such as "Paradise" and "Hymn For The Weekend", were performance shots are effectively used.

• Other Music Videos- Other ideas that we came up were based off of other previous music videos that we found to be interesting and could potentially work with the artists and genre we have chosen. One previous music that really stood out was Craig David’s “7 Days” which portrays a man reliving the same moment over and over again until he achieves his desired outcome. We found this interesting idea as we like the concept of the repeating of the same event and also the fact that this could easily be incorporated into a music video within our desired genre.  

• Goodwin Theory- Another idea that we had was the inclusion of some of Goodwin theory's within the music video. Elements such as the link between lyrics & visuals and music & visuals could potentially be included within our music video. Other elements such as using either performance based, narrative based or concept based could be incorporated to meet the generic conventions of Pop Rock, with mainly performance and narrative being used within this genre. This is gain exampled in Coldplay's song "

How will this help me with my music video?

When making the music video this will help me as i now have a few ideas that i can could possible used within the music video, whereas before i was limited on the ideas that i had. With this knowledge, i now have in overall idea for the music video.