Acoustic Genre

The Acoustic ImageLike many music genre’s, there tends to be a particular image that the band or artist takes on, to encorporate their music.

For example, metal/rock artists and bands usually wear and look like something on these lines:

• Long hair tied back into a ponytail

• Leather Jackets

• Black / grey skinny jeans

• Colours such as Black and Red

Just like these iconic features of the metal/rock genre, the acoustic genre and its artists also have a very particular look:

• Shaggy hair

• Casual clothing

• T-shirts

• Shirts

• Jeans

• Hoodies

• Natural colours, nothing too bold like Red or Black.

MusicAcoustic music is very varied, as there are many

different approaches you can take towards it. However the conventions of the music, keep the songs fairly slow-paced and always have a significant meaning behind them.

I think this is one of the reasons I chose this genre, as I like music to tell a particular story, and allow you to connect and feel the emotions of the song.

“Falling from high places, falling through lost spaces,Now that we're lonely, now that there's nowhere to go.Watching from both sides, these clock towers burning up,I lost my time here, I lost my patience with it all.And we lost faith, in the arms of love.”

Ben Howard - Wolves

“Well, I came homeLike a stoneAnd I fell heavy into your armsThese days of dustWhich we've knownWill blow away with this new sunAnd I will wait, I will wait for youAnd I will wait, I will wait for you”

Music VideosAcoustic music videos, differ greatly from other genres.

Their videos tend to include;

• Nature – landscape shots, natural, outdoor settings. This gives the video a calm and tranquil feel.

• The artist featuring in the video, acting out the story of the song

• Many often use the black and white technique, to make it look older

• This leads me on to colours, which are usually very natural, and certain effects are sometimes used to make the videos look vintage.

• Videos also use clips of festivals and concerts

• Guitars or pianos appear in most acoustic music videos

• Focused on one person, singing about another person – emotion.

• Settings tend to be natural, isolated, run-down or a link to the person featured in the song.

• Slowpaced camera shots – this is so we can understand the meaning of the song.

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