Research

INDIE MUSIC

It is very common for Indie artists to use performance in their music video and the main focus is to show the artist being passionate for their music. They also like to show off their talent because they aren't as interested in the money and fame side, they just like to make good music. Indie artist normally have a low budget when it comes to producing the music video because they aren't as well known as celebrities and artists from major labels. They usually come from independent record labels where the music is made purely from talent and instruments using standard equipment.

RESEARCH

To help with the development of my music video I did some reserach on abstract film in which I could adapt to fit a music video. I found that abstract film is a subgenre of experimental film. Some of the earliest abstract motion pictures known to survive are those produced by a group of german artists working in the early 1920's. These artists present different approaches to abstraction-in-motion as an anologue to music or as the creation of absolute language of form.
        I also researched absoluet music and found that it is not explicitly about anything and is non representational. The idea of absolute music developed at the end of the 18th century in the writings of German Romanticism such as Willhelm Heinrich Wakenroder. The definition is "Instrumental music, as a concerto or string quartet that draws no inspiration from or makes no reference to a text, programme, visual image or title and that exists solely in terms of its musical form, structure and elements".
       I think this definition is helpful because I can take ideas from it when I create my music video. For example, even though my music has text/lyrics, the video itself will not be very representitive as my actor is going on a jouney however we never know where she is going and there is no reference in the text, therefore eahc individual can decide for themesleves where she is going or what her intentions are etc.