mr dave

I think it all goes back to the song. Some lend themselves very well to more atmospheric, indirect, or theatrical visual representations, others just scream for the band to be shown rocking out hard.

Ultimately, you're never going to please anyone, so you might as well try pleasing the people in the band.

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Euronomus

I generally agree with you here, but the question is what makes an interesting and memorable video. A band performance vid can definitely be a good video that improves the enjoyment of a song, but will anyone remember it in a few months or years? Will people go out of their way to watch it and get their friends to watch it? If you want people to be engrossed and remember your work, you have to think more along the lines of making a short film, not just try to expand upon the music.

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mr dave

I think in this case it really depends on the band and whether or not the video captures an actual live performance or if it's just a collection of live clips sequenced to the song. Also depends on how visually entertaining the live band gets on stage.

Going back to the OP and the fact that it's going to be a 60s style rock tune (psychedelic?) from a local band the first thing I'd invest in is a kaleidoscope and some oil based food colouring. All you need is an overhead projector (shouldn't be hard to find as a media student) plus a fishbowl and you can make all those badass trippy backgrounds just like that.

Even if you go with a theatrical video you could still technically blue screen most of the sky out of your shots and replace it with liquid trippiness.

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