Feedback from 1st Draft

This is my friend Geeta, also a media student who gave me great advice on what I did well and what I could improve on.
Geeta Feedback from Sophie Boston on Vimeo.

 

I also got feedback from my peers at the BFI Film Academy, as who better to give advice than people who work a lot behind cameras and complete similar projects? They were all lovely comments, and Lareb in particular gave me excellent criticism. The response to my question about whether to keep the two boys in or not varied, so I am going to shoot my last scene with Adam and Beth and replace Marcus and William just to compare the two - I am undecided yet.

 

Influence of Style

The genre that I am considering is a mixture of folk and indie pop. This is quite a niche market area, but the combination allows the target audience to widen a little. Gabrielle Aplin came to attention and gained a massive online following after publishing acoustic covers of songs by bands such as Paramore and You Me at Six on YouTube. With the ability to play the drums, guitar and piano Aplin is a very versatile artist and is able to attract many audiences of different demographics.

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folklore, which was named in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes." 
The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier. Folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others.
While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two.
Apart from instrumental music that forms a part of traditional folk music, especially dance music traditions, much traditional folk music is vocal music, since the instrument that makes such music is usually handy. As such, most traditional folk music has meaningful lyrics.
Some of the folk music characteristics are as follows:

• transmitted through oral tradition just like reciting an epic poem like Homer's The Odyssey
• the subject matter was often related to national culture
• they commemorate historical and personal events
• fusion of cultures- people of all backgrounds come together often to celebrate folk music
• folk music is often non commercial. Even Aplin's music isn't necessarily 'commercialised' although some may argue it is due to her song being used for the John Lewis soundtrack

Folk instruments can be made from wood, metal or other material. Some common folk instruments include:

• bagpipe
• banjo
• drum
• fiddle
• guitar (acoustic)
• harmonica
• lute
• mandolin
• flute
• sitar
• steelpan
• violin
• accordion

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, with its roots in Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early 1980s  and the dominant UK independent band of the mid-1980s, the Smiths.The publication in Record Business magazine of the first weekly indie singles and album charts (19th January 1980) and the adoption of such charts in the UK music press stimulated activity. In order to reflect this, the British musical weekly New Musical Express released an era-defining compilation cassette called C81. This cassette featured a wide range of groups, reflecting the different approaches of the immediate post-punk era. Over time the cassette became a shorthand for a movement within the British indie scene, often derided for its twee or "cuteness", jangly guitars, the bowl haircuts of its singers and asexual looks of its followers.
Power pop was a significant influence, as was punk and post-punk. Catchy power pop melodies made the Ramones and Buzzcocks the most identifiable punk influences.

Indie music is a mix of pop, jazz, rock, blues, and poetry. Indie is short for Independent. Indie music was created in the 1950-60’s but was very underground meaning indie bands played in little venues and in there garages. Indie music did not grow in popularity till the 80’s. Indie artists created music how they wanted. Therefore they usually were not get signed to a big producer and did not make a lot of money. Indie artists rather create their own music/ sound then make a lot of money. In fact they prefer to not be as popular as pop music and other genres. To this day Indie music is not as popular as the others. But a lot of well-known Indie bands started as small garage bands. It took a lot of practice and dedication. They played at venues often and started off with small CD’s.

Instruments include:

• vocals
• drums
• bass
• guitar

Well known indie pop artists include:

• The Bats
• Birdy
• Gabrielle Aplin
• The Cardigans
• Corinne Bailey Rae
• Ellie Goulding