Preliminary Task: Recreating A Music Video

As the title illustrates, my preliminary task is to recreate a minute of an artists music video. Due to my interests and love of indie style music, Ben Howard's Keep Your Head Up was what I decided to do. Below is the video for that song:



Reasons for choosing Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up
My reasons for choosing this particular song are as followed:

• As our preliminary task states we only have to film a minute of the song and the first minute of the video is relatively easy to both recreate and act out. However our main issue will be with the editing, as their is a strong edit on colour and lighting within the first minute so recreating that will prove a challenge.
• The song fits perfectly with the Indie genre as it as an absence of auto-tune (a common factor within mainstream artists), relies heavily on the use of instruments; in particular a guitar and also the video is independent as it is a more relatable and 'normal' occurance (which indie is all about) rather than a mainstream video which would be typically set in a club.  
• The location/ setting is in a field and a forest with a stream or lake of some sort. As we have suitable locations in the surrounding areas of where we live, finding a similar place to film should be easy enough and should cause much distress.
• In terms of Mise-en-Scene, the props we need to use are simple as they are: a shovel and a sack. In terms of costume, the artist wears rolled up jeans and a plain t-shirt which portrays a casual, down to earth impression and therefore should be easy to mirror.  
• The camera shots are mainly an array of close ups shots, tracking shots, mid shots and POV shots which will provide minimal difficulty in recreating as myself and other group members are all familiar with using cameras. 
• Throughout the entire the video, the artist chooses not to have shots of him singing and focuses more on his actions and movement in the video. Therefore, as I will be performing the role of the artist, I will not have to work on perfectly mirroring the artist singing as well as working on my ability to mime.