Ideas for Songs

For our creative task We have to choose a song and make a music video for that chosen song. The choice of song is obviously critical to the effectiveness of the overall video. It has got to be a song that i like and also a song that is going to be challenging in the sense that it has lots of work and differing techniques to showcase what we can achieve.

After our choice the entire group gathered round and shared their ideas. Each had a definite potential but none were particuly of interest to me.

For our group I alone had to decide which song we had to do because my group was unavailable at the time. For a start I had to pick genre because if i could determine genre I could narrow down the song choices. I managed to narrow down our genre choices down to two. Pop or Indie Rock. I decided on these two genres because they had lots of adaptability and could be interpreted in different ways. Pop was one of the two choices because it was a good opportunity to have multiple shots and would be easier to enable quick shots, because of the natural pace and speed of the music. For pop we had  few choices for song which are listed below.

Rizzle Kicks: Down with the trumpets

However despite the choice of song we had i still wasn't convinced on it, because it was not a song that i wanted to portray due to the fact that it already had a video for it and i didn't want to make a copy. And i didn't exactly like the song so i wouldn't have been able to carry on with it.

In the end I decided to use the genre of Indie Rock because it would have given me a good excuse to use a narrative structure for this because many indie songs do have an element of storyline to them and because they are indie many of them are album tracks and don't have any music video, so we could be creative with our music video. After a lot of trial and error I decided on our song choice which was Arctic Monkeys- I bet you look good on the dance floor.