Research into Gabrielle Aplin

Research into the chosen artist Gabrielle Aplin

Here is a brief summary about the artist we have chosen and some reasons explaining our choices for the song and casting...

Bio.

Gabrielle Aplin is a 21 year old British singer-songwriter. She started her career in the year 2008 and has since sang singles which gained her mainstream attention (‘Please don’t say you love me’ & ‘The power of love’) and produced an album titled ‘English Rain’ with some very successful tracks such as ‘Panic cord’ and ‘Home’; the latter of which we have decided to produce a music video for.

Attributes

As Gabrielle Aplin is a young, female artist, finding an actress for our music video was extremely easy as we simply had one of the members from our group do the performance. We have chosen Alannah for this role as she has had previous experience with acting (GCSE drama) and she is also keen on singing in real life; this was an advantage as she was able to ding along to the song and make the lip syncing look more believable over simple miming. In addition, both have some similarities in looks and we hoped that Lana’s attributes would make the voice fit her and make the music video more believable for the audience.

Here is a picture of Gabrielle Aplin and our chosen actress Alannah Hill.

 

Song Genres

The songs Aplin sings come under Indie, Pop, Country and Folk music genres. In all of our questionnaires at least one of those genres has come up on top and we thought as a group this was a good reason to cover one of her songs.

Music video style

Aplin’s videos always open with a short clip before the song start. This provides a setting to the usually storyline based narrative shots intertwined with performance shots. We have agreed that although making an intro to the song would be too difficult, we wished to follow this convention and decided we would add a short clip before the song as well. We also agreed that the short clip would be used to display information about the song, as from our surveys it would seem that most of the audience preferred the titles to go at the beginning rather than at the end of a video.