Our Chosen Soundtrack

This is a mindmap of the song we have chosen called "Allegro". We have considered the narrative theories used as well as the story that the lyrics tell. We felt as if the song went well with the indie genre because of the tone, the voice and the general style of music along with the lyrics, which create a good narrative to make a video for, giving us multiple ideas for our final cut. The general lyrics from the song give us a good base to make a narrative from, as it tells a story about a young male who is attracted to a fellow pupil in his school, some who he wants to "be more than mates" with. The lyrics are clever and i also felt like they're very relative also to teenage life, using lyrics such as "caked in fake tan", something a teenage society would relate to and laugh about but older generations would not find as entertaining, as their friends would not do that themselves. We found that the band has a very unique vocalist with a "different" voice, someting stereotypical of the indie genre and something that would entertain a younger audience, as we appreciate different and unusual music more so than parents or grandparents would, so we felt like this band in general matched our research into the indie genre. 

What we pointed out and enjoyed immediatley was the long introduction, we liked this idea because the start of the song being instrumental with no lyrics, gave us time to create a setting and a starting point, introducing our narrative to the audience and giving us a chance to immediatley engage the audience. We could also change and mix around the pace of editing and length of shots because of the varied speeds and rhythem in the song, this song gave a wide range of options considering our settings and shots and movement and narrative. Because the lead vocalist is male and singing about a girl, we found that it was suitable to use a male actor who would relate to the lyrics and include a main lead girl as well, however we would have the male being more feminine with his emotions, challenging patriarchy and dominant ideaologies, we want her leading, rather than being weak and caring, in our video and song, it is the male who would be attracted to the female and giving himself to her, presented himself as emotional and caring, We came to the conclusion that the majority of our audience would be female therefore they should be able to relate to the main character, feeling empowered by her presence and her lack of feminity, feeling as if she inspires many girls to be the leader, rather than weak.