This is my answer towards blog task 9.

1. I have always been a fan of Indie Pop music, which is why I
think it might be better to do the genre that I am familiar
with. Here are some of my favourite Indie Pop artists:
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE
THE NAKED AND
FAMOUS

2. Since my partner, Georgia, and I are both into Indie Pop
music, we decided to choose a song from one of these band.
We then later decided on a song called BRIDGES by BROODS.
•Brood’s song is not too long or too short.
•Bridges is only 3 minutes and 10 seconds long.
• It is a perfect song to do as its pace is not too fast
yet not too slow.
•We understand completely the meaning of the
song and what the song is trying to portray.
The song is basically talking about a relationship.
- So we first have to worked out what the lyrics
actually means, especially the word ‘ Bridges’.

3. Brainstorm:
Lyrics :Meaning
‘Burning all the bridges now’
Loving someone means
constantly building bridges
between their life and theirs.
Bridges represents the
connection/relationship
between 2 person.
-Destruction
-Bold action,
meaning the final
important decision
has been made.
-Burning means
nothing can be
saved
-specific
moment
-request to do it
now and not
delaying it
-Not looking
back at the past

4. Brainstorm:
‘burning bridges’:
The whole phrase can mean total commitment.
Burn the bridges to prove
that you will never go back
or look back.
Burning the bridges
means total wreck of
a relationship. Cutting
off all the connection
between each other.
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‘It was sink or swim and I
went down’ - Lyric
Final decision have been made. That
one person has no intention of saving
this relationship and would willing to
abandoned it or even ‘BURN’ it, so the
person could cut off all the connection.
‘Can we forget about it, can we
forget’ - Lyrics
It was mistakes that has been
mentioned. The question was asked
to the other person if the mistakes can
be forgotten.
- Answer is no.

5. Outline of idea:
Now we have fully understood the meaning of the song, we have come up
with a narrative to help portraying the meaning of the song to the audience.
-Friendship:
Portraying the relationship have
been building up since they are
little.
Suggesting
their
relationship
‘bridge’ have
been building
up ever since,
Eventually, they fall apart and
decided to go to a different
path. Rather than being sad and caught
up in the past, one of them will
decided to break all their
connection with each other. –
Burning the Bridges’

6. Ideas:
How to present to the audience that why one of them are
breaking all the connection with a friend?
-Alcohol
problem
-Being ditched
-Heart broken
-decided to just
not see each
other again
-leads to an
argument.
-Drug
Overdose
-Did not receive
any help during
critical moment
-argument
-Eventually did
not
communicate at
all
-One-sided friendship
-the other person could
not care less
-the person has
sacrificed for their
friend and yet they got
no reward or some sort
of
-heartbroken
-back away from that
person in subtlety
-Childhood
friends
-drifting apart
-Promises with
each other are no
longer kept
-Burning all the
pictures,
representing the
friendship is over,

7. Ideas:
How to present the ‘Cutting off the connection’ in the
music video?
The memory are often stored in a form of photographs.
-tear the photographs apart
-Rip them off the wall
-Burn them = ‘Burning the bridges’
Destruction of
something that
was meant to be
kept –
photographs –
Memory.

8. Props that represent friendship:
1. Friendship Bracelets
2. Flower – friendship flower
3. Knitted scarves
4. Photographs
LOCATION:
Bedroom – they were in each other’s
comfort zone
Field – happy memory created
Abandoned Farm – burn the photos
Under the bridge – secret location
Chalk pits – performance based location
Emotion and feelings are
portrayed through:
-use of smoke
-coloured power
-Fire
-Fairy lights

9. CODES & CONVENTIONS OF
INDIE POP music video:
Settings:
Indie pop music videos are known to be low-budget.
Main settings are in studios, cities, parks, woods etc, These location
creates mysteries, which makes the audience focus more on the
performance.
Performance:
Most Indie Pop music videos include a live performance form the artist
which makes the audience focus on the talent that the artist has. It
makes their career about their passion for music rather than success.
- Live performances promote the artist/s too. This enables
audiences to see the atmosphere the artists creates in their concerts
encouraging the public to watch the artist/s live.

10. -Performance is often partnered with a narrative to break up the
music video thus, creating the music video memorable.
Narrative:
A narrative is used to tell a story by using a sequence of
images and videos related to the song; not literal, but still
enables the audience to understand why it was given that
certain narrative, which links with the song.
Nowadays, music video directors are able to create a variation of
storytelling created by special effects making the video a lot
more interesting or the audience and keeps them engaged in
the music video as the scenes are always changing. This can
also help gain success and status of the song, artist/s and
directors.

11. Mise-en-scene
Indie music videos are generally simple.
-Props, costumes, make up etc. are linked to the scene.
• A prop can complete a scene as audiences are able to physically see
what the character / artist is currently doing.
• COSTUMES & MAKE UP = create the character. It indicates their age,
wealth, status, era of the music video and stability.
SOUND
-Dialogue are often used in music video either in the beginning or the
end to tell or conclude the story.
-It is also sometimes used to either distort, fade, increase or decrease the
tempo to express one’s emotion.
-Diegetic sound is used when filming scenes, to match the lyrics with the
action, but the end product the song is non-diegetic.

12. CAMERA
• Extreme, close-ups are the most common shots used as this introduces
the artist or the antagonist to the audience. Used to express emotions.
• Long shots, establishing shots are used to show the setting of the video
and sets the character, and helps the audience understand the message
behind the video
• Tilts and pans to either move along the scene or cut into another scene
• Handheld shots are often used to show a memory.
EDITING
-filters are often used over the top of clips or the entire video to give
a certain idea to the viewer, such as memory, age to the video or
showing the clip in a positive or negative light.
-Black and white or Sepia are the main filters used to create rustic
look
-Fast and slow cuts between shots reflects the pace of the music,
creating the atmosphere of the music video.