Song Choices

In order to decide what song I will be making a video too, I came up with an initial list to show the options I had and why I rejected all but one of them.

Chosen Video:

The Enemy - Like a Dancer = This was our favourite possible option for our song choice as we thought it had quite narrative lyrics so it would make it easier when filming the music video. The music is very upbeat throughout it which means we need something going on all the time. The band already have quite a basic video for the song which is live footage of them performing the song which so we can be quite original with what we produce.

Rejected videos:

Kasabian - Goodbye Kiss = This is quite a mellow song and so was quite simple to film a story too but at the same time, it was more up beat than other songs we'd looked at. This would mean we'd need slightly different scenes included which give it that extra edge to make sure it goes along with the music. We would also have to do ours completely different to the bands official video as they only seem to have themselves performing the song at a concert.

Ed Sheeran - A Team = We thought this would be a good song as it revolves around one person in the actual video, and so we could do the same for ours and it wouldn't mean needing many people. The song itself is quite slow so we wouldn't need to produce anything wild and dramatic, however we feel as though the song is almost too slow for us to be able to make a video comfortably.

Taylor Swift - Love Story = This was more of an easy option out of our choices as it has a clear story in the official video, pretty much a disney fairytale where a prince and princess find each other and fall in love. Although it has this simplicity, we feel we wouldn't be able to create a video in the same way as it would involve needing costumes and characters that we would find difficult to get hold of.

The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way = We found this video was much more upbeat and had a faster rhythm to it, and so means our own video would need much faster scenes and activity going on in it.

Jake Bugg - Two Fingers Our initial thoughts on this song were good as we thought we could easily come up with a video to go with the lyrics but as this song already has a video it may actually be difficult. We'd find it hard to make a video different to the one it has already.

Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm We would have liked to have had a shot at making as music video for this song, but we thought it would be hard finding people willing to star in it and who would pretend to be in a band and carry out Arctic Monkeys style.

Rudimental - Feel The Love We thought we'd look at a song a lot different to our previous choices. It would be a good song to make a music video for but as it's more of an upbeat dance tune, finding people and locations for the video may be hard.