Frank Turner.

We have picked a song that is written and played by our friend Miles. It is acoustic indie so we are now starting to looking into artist that are similar to his nature. Frank Turner aged 29 and from Meonstoke Winchester he's one of the most recognised acoustic artists around, he originally started out playing in the band Million Dead until the band split in 2005 and all the member went there separate ways.

As you can see here with most acoustic artists they normally have a picture of them with there guitar in a chilled out area sometimes a rough background and other times just plain ones. Franks slight lines in both these images he is looking away at something this is telling us that in the second image he's not to bothered that a picture is being taken as he wants to portray himself as a relaxed individual. The first picture he is quite clearly looking away to gain a bit of attention to his face and the outfit that he is wearing. The two fingers on the strings off the guitar is quite a discreet way to hold the guitar up instead of hold the the guitar in his hands the main focus in the first picture is his face and suit. Unlike the second image the guitar is just as important as him in that image.

This is Franks latest album which was released 6th June 201. The title of it 'England keep my bones' shows he is very pound to be British. The crossed bones in the middle related to the title of the album but also links in with the sort of pirate look if you also look at the front that has been used this links in with the pirate look as well. The green and gold in a very old colour mix so the message Frank is trying to give across to the audience is that this album looks like something you would find back in the 1500s is albums were around then.

This is Frank Turner - Photosynthesis it is him playing at a school and playing in a dark room but the main story is him playing in front of kids and then letting them have a little go to help him make a music video. The lyrics link in well with the video as its all about growing up and the story within the video is school kids learning and playing with instruments. The chorus in the song is 'I wont sit down, I wont shut up, most of all i wont grow up' which represents kids very well as they don't stop moving and making noises so the lyrics relate with the video. Towards the end of the song the is a verse 'I'll play, you sing, the prefect way for the evening to begin' in the video he gets all the kids sat down or stood up in a photo picture and as he plays they sing which also is a brilliant relation between the lyrics and the video.

Camera work within the video there are a lot of long shots to show everything that is going on as lots of the school kids are included. There are lots of close up on Franks, the children's faces and the instruments these close ups are done on the children's faces to show how sweet they are as the song is a very happy sing along song. The close ups on the instruments to show the variety of things the children get to play around with and finally the close ups on Franks faces are done to show him singing the song and having a good time. There are other shots but mainly long shots and close ups.

The cuts are very soft and quite slow as they need to match the pace of the song which is quite up tempo for an acoustic songs but its not over the top it has some slow parts in but to gain audience appeal to this sort of song as its quite a jolly song they need to have the cuts quite soft and not rushed.

So for our video we need to make sure our cuts are not to quick and if we can relate the lyrics to the video as well as Frank has done here I believe our video will be very successful.