Choosing my Song

What song to pick?

When brainstorming our ideas, we attempted to think of a wide diverse range of songs that we may not particularly like but would have a good enough beat to make a matching video. We focused mainly on upbeat tempo songs that we believed would be fairly realistic and straight-forward to do.

Fluorescent Adolescent – Artic Monkeys

We initially liked this song because it has an upbeat tune to it. Also the song currently has no video to it, so we felt this would give us a lot more freedom to create a video for this song from scratch rather than always comparing it to its original video. We decided not to go with this song because we felt we didn’t know enough people who fitted the image of the typical ‘indie’ band we had in mind

Love, Sex and Magic -Ciara ft Justin Timbaland

An interest was taken into this song because of its unique execution of an R’n’B video, the video didn’t exactly challenge R’n’B conventions but it neither conformed to them either. We in the end rejected this idea because the video was way too promiscuous .It was unlikely we would find anyone feeling comfortable re-enacting similar type of scenes in the actual video or scenes matching to the lyrical content.

Blind Faith – Chase and Status ft Liam Bailey

We liked this video because of its ‘trancy’ and upbeat tempo. However we decided not to do it because the beat naturally suited a video that’s majority is shoot in a club scene, which we believed would be extremely difficult to do.  The TV version of the video I'm talking about doesn't come up on Youtube , but I will upload a version that at least has the song on it

Sugababes – Freak like me

Above all the other songs we found this song the hardest to reject. We already had people in mind for playing the three lead roles in the video and had our own ideas of how we could change up the video. The rejection of this video came about because we both agreed the video would mostly be filmed in the dark.  Past projects from our previous year has put us both off the notion of having too many dark scenes in any production we made so we decided to leave this idea to the dust