Initial Research Ideas.

I tend to listen to a range of different genres, it depends on what mood I'm in as to what genre I listen to at a certain time, however, the artists I would tend to listen to would be:

• Frankie and the heartstrings
• The Rumble Strips
• R.E.M.
• Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars
• Pink
• Bowling for Soup
• The Killers
• Of Monsters and Men
• McBusted
• Boo Radleys
• Guns n Roses
• We the Kings
• Billy Joel
• Bryan Adams
• Oasis
• Snow Patrol
• Nirvana
• Goo Goo dolls
• scouting for girls
• plain white t's

The Rumble Strips 

3 official Music Videos:

The Rumble Strips: Oh Creole: 5 years ago

The rumble Strips: Alarm Clock: 5 years ago

The Rumble Strips: Girls and Boys in Love: 8 years ago

The Rumble Strips are available on Google Play, Napster, Itunes and Spotify

The Rumble Strips have done interviews with various Indie Magazines and Websites- such as Clash.

The Rumble Strips album covers and Posters tend to have a nostalgic feel  to them with a sepia filter, in order to make the band seem more indie, although the band has produced music since 2004. The Rumble Strips are also both available through CD and Vinyl as Vinyl are slowly coming back into fashion.

The Rumble Strips are advertised on find your Perfect festival .com, however, at the moment they only have one previous event and no upcoming events on line. They are advertised as "upbeat indie".

Screenshot taking from the Rumble Strips: Girls and Boys in love: The artists are framed centrally, making them the focal point and each artist is introduced in the same way, the dog (framed right) and pull focused away from, is seen to pull the individuals from the ground through the grass, they then pull their instruments from the same place, it establishes a rural setting as well as the Indie genre, the use of nature is a convention of the indie genre.

The group also use humour, through the idea of them being buried under ground and released- it is almost used to convey freedom, in this shot, humour is used in the fact one member is stuck upside down and cant get out- it adds a light hearted feel to the music video.

The music video also Adheres to Goodwins theory who suggested that artists sing into camera, this song was one of the first created professionally by the rumble strips, and it establishes the band throughout the song.

A wide shot is also used to suggest the performance aspect of the band- this is used so that the audience are notified of each performer in the band. Synergy is kept throughout through the use of nature and the green colour in the background.

The band also introduce a party like sub plot as more and more extras are introduced into the frame, it once again establishes the idea of freedom, having fun and being yourself, the whole music video is quite light hearted.

The song ends through the use of a cycle, the dog who ran off in the beginning of the music video and finds the band members returns back to its owner, framed centrally, the idea of the fun ending backs into the sense of reality and the idea that life cant just be one big party. The green that created the synergy is used from the first frame to the last one. The music video has 123 frames in total.