Lack of band footage

If you've seen my plans for my video, you will have noticed that I have not included any space for footage of the band playing. This is deliberate. In most music videos, the band is present, but this is nearly entirely dependent on the genre of music. In almost all rock, pop, rap, metal or dance videos, as well as many other more popular genres, the band is present. This can easily be verified by a quick sample of some of the videos from songs of these genres. I chose a random song from each of these genres from my music library (a biased source - this was a very flawed experiment, but should be apparent anyway), and each song featured at least one member of the band, for at least a minute. What has led me against doing this with my video is the style of music, which for "Helsinki" is an alternative/electronic/ 80's rock song (It is hard to pin a genre to that song). I thought that given the electronic side of the song, which is most of it, it would be a bad idea to get footage of the band playing - it only works well with instruments, which are largely synthesized. On top of this, the band live in London, which would make it hard to visit them, never mind setting up a place to play (which would need to fit the theme, so maybe a rooftop of a tall building)and getting time to flm it. However, I ave decided that for the uncut version I will do for the band, which will last over the 4 minute limit for the media project I will ask the band to set up some footage of them playing themselves, which I could then merge with the final media project to extend the length.