9. Initial Ideas of Media Language

Cinematography:

• I would like to include quite a fair few panning and tilt shots in my music video, these would mostly be of the rural areas that I will be filming, e.g. forrests, beaches, cliffs etc.
• I will use many close-ups and extreme close-ups of the characters in my film, I will use these shots in order to create a certain level of intimacy and build an emotional relationship  between the audience and the characters on screen. I feel this would be effective as I know that the song I have chosen is quite emotional and has some powerful drops in it that do effect the audience emotionally, and I feel that with the right close up shots I can enhance the emotion of the song through them to make my music video have an effect on the audience. 
• I will shots like medium close-ups, tracking shots, establishing shots and others of this kind in order to create that home movie/day in the life feel to the video, These shots are conventional of this style as they give a sense of verisimilitude to the video as home videos are shot very informally, this is how I feel I will achieve this style of filming.
• Low angles will also be used in my music video as I would like to give the a message that love is strong reflected my intended theme of love. 
• All of these conform to the codes and conventions of indie music videos.

Mise-en-Scene:

• The costume of the characters in the video will be wearing typical popular indie clothing, the style will be more modern and more contemporary than that of the older indie styles.
• One note of performance that I would like to use in the music video from the actors would be to be looking into the camera as well as looking away from it, this is for two reasons: the first reason is that the home movie style of film obviously shows the people of film looking into the camera or else it wouldn't be typical home movie; and the second is that looking into the camera creates even more of a relationship with the audience of the video, this is because it could make the audience feel that they are looking  at them specifically.
• Setting/Location: The location that I would like to use for the music video would be the North and South Bays of Scarborough, East Yorkshire; this is a seaside town on the east coast of Northern England where the sun catches the beachfront nicely at certain times of day - given the weather of course. I has the perfect landscape i.e. beaches, cliffs, wooded areas, for what I want my film to look like, the rural areas also conform to conventions of indie rock videos as I discussed in post 3.
• The perfect lighting for my music video would be sunny with preferable clear skies, this is because I would like my video to have a happy tone to it as it reflects a fun day in the life sort of video, also the home movie style of video is typically shot in the sun to give a sort of positive, nostalgic feel. This is the feeling that I would like to get from my music video. Ocean Colour Scene's The Day We Caught the Train is a good example of this too.

Editing:

• The use of transitions will be crucial for my video i believe, the use of too many will ruin the continuity and verisimilitude of the home movie style, however, I would like to use some to go with the more self-reflexive aspects of the video to go with the breaking of the fourth wall, subtly making itself aware of the fact that it is only a music video while still being in-keeping with the home movie format and conventions.
• Visual effects: The visual effects are not so much effects like CGI, animation of special effects, but more in the way of colour effects and filters. In order for me to keep within this often-mentioned home movie format,;I am going to adjust the colour filter on my footage in order to so, I will give the footage more of a sepia filter i.e. a faintly orange tinge.
• The only way that  my video will wont be in-keeping with the desired home movie/day in the life format will probably its non-linear editing, as, conventionally, home movies are not editing and so they take on a linear format in the way that it tells the story as it is happening and it just goes in one line, but I would like to be more in touch with the codes of a conventional indie music video where the shots change from different locations in a non-linear format e.g. Blossoms' Getaway.