I had anticipated that when we asked our focus group what sort of music they would deem our song to be, that they would say "folk music". And it's easy to see why, while I think it's very hard to classify this song into a genre it seems at the moment that folk is the most fair as it is most certainly not indie music and it's hard to classify it as soft rock.
I am no stranger to folk music as a whole and I think I can offer a certain degree of advice for the mise-en-scene of our performance section of the video which I will discuss in a separate blog. In this blog I just want to talk about my response to folk music as a genre.
I am not one of those people who finds Folk Music to be boring. In fact I think there is a wide range of talent with in Folk music and specifically Folk Rock. Folk Rock is usually acoustic based for the most part or more acoustic sounding than other sub-genres of rock and there is usually a great deal of emphasis placed on the lyrics as opposed to the sound of the music. Perhaps the most noticeable example of Folk Rock is Bob Dylan who was famed for having great song writing skills but a less than stellar musical sound.
I find it generally easy to draw comparisons between the writing styles of different folk musicians and as such I think I will be able to find good ideas for music videos because of this.
I'm quite pleased that the focus group as judged our song to be folk rock as I found that trying to find ideas and inspiration using alternative rock and hard rock simply didn't match up with the song. And much of our initial ideas that never made it past the "brief idea" stage didn't fit the video.
I think some of our newer ideas so far can work well within Folk Rock however and now that we know what genre we're definitely going for, we can find newer ideas that will work with our track much better.
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