Cinematography, Mise-En-Scene Ideas & Textual Analysis

One convention of indie folk music is nature, this is a huge convention as it is shown in pretty much every indie folk music video. I had ideas whether to defy this convention, but decided otherwise as it would be too drastic of a change to not include nature. I decided on choosing a location of natural beauty i.e a forest or a lake. An ideal location for me would be Hessle foreshore, in Hull where I live and the conjoining forest or 'Little Switzerland' as us locals call it. 'Little Switzerland' is across the city from my house so it would mean going out of where I would usually go, but I thought it was definitely worth it as the views are genuinely stunning and would fit to my genre perfectly.

An example video which influenced my ideas is 'Passenger - Hearts on fire'.
This video features Passenger, the singer walking through a forest, along with an old man, and a woman. The video follows a narrative where Passenger picks up items form the forest, in this case, a toy car, a flower of which he uses a book to press the flower to preserve it, and a stopwatch. He then places it all in a suitcase and buries it. It is then revealed that the old man walking through the forest is an older version of the singer finding the suitcase again. A simple narrative, but one which is particularly powerful as it uses emotive body language accompanied with the soft, free flowing melody to create a tone only really replicated by other videos of this genre.

• Close ups+ medium close ups of the artist, this is incredibly common in the indie folk genre as the songs have a lot of meaning in them, so this is to show the audience that the singer means what they are singing, as you can see the emotion. 
• Nature is a constant theme.
• The theme of life is also very prominent.
• The cuts depend on the speed of the song. Indie folk is usually very slow, so therefore it is not uncommon to have a 20+ second shot. Different to pop videos as they have many, short duration shots.
• Usually, when the artist is singing, it is a long shot of them singing, however, the long instrumentals in between verses, is when they show the narrative of the song. 
• Shots of the instruments being played is also in pretty much every video in this genre. Even though the guitar isn't shown very much in this particular video, but it is still shown.