Ideas's for shot movements

From our shots we have found them to be too static, so I have come up with a few additional movements shots.

Use handicam shots of the band, with lots of quick cuts. As seen in the Arctic Monkeys video's of "Brianstorm" and "Fluorescent Adolescent". This will then show our video to conform to the bands image.

For the alley shot, where the band stand on a corner, have the camera facing them and as the lead singer runs off the camera turns to follow him down the alley but doesn't move, just watches him run off. Maybe then switch to a camera in the middle of the path watching him running towards him and then as he paces over the top, tilts to watch him run off again.

In the video "Flathead" (The Fratellis), there is an interesting movement, where the camera zooms in on the singers face and then zooms out very quickly. There is also a zoom, which tilts as it zooms in, which I found could be useful and different to many other videos.

In a number of videos in this genre there seem to be the camera pulling away from the singers face, and then seeing them starting to sing.

On the other hand, looking at similar videos such as "Helicopter" by Bloc Party which is of the same genre as Arctic Monkeys there is very little movement, but they dynamic nature of the video is provided by the very fast paced cutting. However this video also contains some handicam shots.

Another idea which could add a spark to the video, is to use split screen. For example, have a shot of the singers girlfriend looking at her watch, then picking up the phone and calling the lead singer. With the split screen show the singer and the girlfriend's reaction shots.