The extremity to which I want this music video to not only be a success but more importantly something that I want to be proud of has led me into this intense amount of further research for the video. The bar of expectation for the music video has been set very high, and is built under many complex, but very important aspects and this is the sole reason to why I though it'd be best to watch all of these tutorials underneath.
All of the videos are noted for being helpful for people making films and of whom want to better their films and make them look a lot more professional. The reason that I have looked into the 'Film Look' as a whole, rather than just music video production specifically, is because most of my video (or at least, most of the significance) is displayed through the use of narrative. Having a more professional, more aesthetically pleasing look to the narrative scenes engages audiences. On the other hand though I still do like the fast-paced, creative and unique feel you get with an indie-style music video. Therefore I decided that to try and make this work on an efficient and likeable level I had to find the perfect balance between indie-film and indie-music video, to thus create a engineered integration that would and could be explored by many. 
That's my vision for the end product, no matter how plausible it may be. To try and lessen the gap of implausibility though was the result of this list beneath this. I have also looked a lot into many indie games such as 'Badland', many british films such as 'Layer Cake' and 'Submarine' and critically-acclaimed TV shows such as Breaking bad - all to get the best possible opportunity for my vision.
a lot of the videos below focus mainly on budget-filming, and these mostly come from YT channels 'FilmRiot' and IndyMogul'. I have been a fan for a long time and used a lot of their tips to help me with other work, and I believe that using budget techniques is the way forward for aspiring filmmakers like myself, but to make them so inconspicuous isn't always necessary. Compared to the narrative, the band performance doesn't have to be so 'professional' because it being or looking amateur can have its benefits. However the 'amateur' aspect has to be heavily thought out and has to be evident and relevant to the shots and the context at which it is presented in. Indie music videos show a lot of this amateur-ness in them and one of them that I enjoy and am inspired from is the video Flashlight by The Front Bottoms. I love the fluidity of the shots and the simpleness to them, the fact that they aren't produced using a giant thousand pound jib, or a multi-million pound stage/studio makes it that much more personal to the audience. Celebrities are often put on a tall platform where they're perceived to be god-like, lowering that platform to a much more fathomable and empathetically realistic height can have an effect that is much more empowering to the interpreter. This only works in certain situations and the genre indie is especially where it prospers most. The creators of the media texts aren't out to glorify people or the envious life at which they may live, but they make the products to present a powerful and deeply emotional meaning that can only be seen and understood through the art they make.
I have read many books, watched many films and listened to many songs all to try and understand the mechanical beauty of the genre and how I can make my own just as elegant. Incorporating all this research into a three and a half minute video is going to be very hard, but it is what i am most looking forward too.
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