When we came back from half term. We were given the task of choosing a song for our music video we are going to create. So My group; which is me and my sister (Lysette) looked over a number of songs we could choose. But we decided on one thing for definate; the genre. We love the genre; POP. So we knew we were going to choose a pop song for this music video task. We knew the video was going to look quite pop, but not your typical pop music video. We were going to try and challenge a few of the typical ideas. For our song we had a range of ideas of song choices, along with that a list of reasons why we couldn't do those particular ones. We had a list of 10 song choices that we gave ourselves that we were going to decide on.
They were;
Taylor Swift- You belong with me
http://www.youtube.com/user/TaylorSwiftVEVO?ob=av2e#p/u/12/VuNIsY6JdUw
When we were going through ideas, I really wanted to do this song because I love it and the video aswell. We decided on this song for a while, then changed our minds. This song is kind of classic pop and counrty at the same time. We love the genre pop so this is why we wanted to choose this song. In the music video; it is about a nerdy girl telling the boy she loves that she is better for him than his over obsessed girlfriend. So we wanted to base the song around the original video. We chose against this song because we thought that we could never live up to the video. Everyone knows and loves the video. We thought we couldn't make it as good and as well done as it so we chose not to do it. We didn't want to do it and have finished it knowing we are going to be compared to the original video and it not being as good. So we wanted to do a song we know we can do and won't be such a big production
Kate Nash- Foundations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH5cga0yUI&ob=av2e
We thought of this particular song because it is very easy and simple to do. This song is about a girl breaking up with her boyfriend because she doesn't like him anymore. We thought it would be quite simple to do because it would just be a girl singing and acting like she hates her boyfriend. So we liked this choice. Untill we began to deeply think about it. We didn't want to aim for something too easy and boring. We wanted to challenge ourselves. So we decided against this idea.
Colbie Callait- Falling for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPCRbuL4Oh8
We thought of this song after we decided against Kate Nash. This is because although they are quite similar, we liked the song and the overall story a lot better. The song is about a girl thinking she has fallen for a boy. So we thought this would be quite easy to do again but whats different about this song so Kate Nashes is; we had more of a plan and more ideas for it. So it wouldn't be as boring. In the end we decided that this song was again; too boring. We wanted to do something with a bit more rythym and some you could tap your foot to.
Katy Perry- Teenage dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE&ob=av2e
This song is on our list because it is big at the moment and it is fresh in our minds so we know all of the lyrics, we know what the song is about and we know the music video. We like song because it's quite fast and isn't slow like a lot of our other choices. So we thought we could handle doing this song. Then we began to think about it properly and almost just after we chose it said that it was too fast and too much of a big song and production to film with just one camera and a tripod. We thought we were being a bit over ambitious.
Twenty Twenty- Worlds apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhmZ1cXH2bM
After looking at a lot of female artists, we thought we would be better of doing a music video with a male artist because all of our ideas that involved female artists weren't working out. So we thought of choosing a boyband song. So we thought about doing a Twenty Twenty song who are a boyband from London. We thought about doing they're song; Worlds Apart. This song is about a boy trying to make it work with a girl but it keeps going wrong and somehow they're worlds apart. We really like they're music video because it is about superheros having girlfriends and they get kidnapped by they're enemy so they have to same them. We decided against this video because we didn't think we could get three boys singing this song because knowone has really heard it before and it will be hard for them to learn a new song compelety. Also because there isn't really any boys we know that we do this. Although we decided against this song. We are going to incoporate the music video's Super Hero idea in our music video.
Nick Jonas- Introducing me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAQfKIJ0Tg
Lysette and I absoloutely love this song. So this is the reason we considered this song. This song is in the Disney Channel Musical; Camp Rock 2. In the movie Nick Jonas sings a song called Introducing me. It's about him telling this girl everything she needs to know about him because she feels like he won't let her know him enough. We just thought of the song and how much we liked it. So it got in the way of thinking of ideas and plans for it. So we really didn't know what to do for it. This is because it's a very basic song. It lists a lot of things in it. So it would be very hard to pick an idea for the music video. So we decided to look at our list again.
Boys Like Girls- Love drunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_uQO6NeFis
We put this on our list because it seemed like we were getting more luck with ideas on boybands more than individual artist. We thought this would be a good song choice to have because it is about a boy saying that he loved this girl but it's ended and he is unhappy basically. After dsicussing this idea, we just simply decided we didn't want to do it. Also because it was a bit rocky than we wanted. This song is more Rock Pop than just Pop and we just want simple POP.
Mcfly- That Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_K2ecZwt8E
We still liked the idea of doing a boyband music video so we looked at doing one of Mcfly's songs because all of they're songs are quite well known. The song that we thought about doing was; That Girl. The song is about the band being with a girl that is out of they're league and then she gets with someone else. We were thinking of ideas and the only ideas we could think of were from the music video. We wanted our own fresh ideas. We didn't want to copy the complete music video. Also we had already decided on our 'Super Hero' idea and we couldn't incoporate it into this song. We definetly wanted the idea to we were willing to choose another idea. So we had two more song that we were looking at.
Sara Barrielles- King of anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0WrCoA3TA
With this song, we decided it would be our final music video song choice. We had this decided for about a week. We had a set idea on it aswell. The song is about a girl saying that her boyfriend tells her what to do, what she should wear and she's fed up of it. She's basically saying; Who died and made you king? We had an idea of doing a bit of narrative for the music video but also a lot of sining as well because we want the girl to be singing in it aswell. Although this was going against our original idea of 'Super Heroes' we decided we would be able to achive more with this than the original idea we had. Based on the song not the idea.
After a week of deciding this was our song choice. We changed it again. This is only because we thought of a better song and for that song we had better ideas. The song is; Personal Soldier by The Wanted.
The Wanted- Personal Soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zV9CEFp1_Q&feature=related
This is the song we have CHOSEN. We looked at this list that we had and thought that this would be the best song to do. This is down to a various number of reasons. One of the reasons we chose it is because it hasn't got a music video yet. It is fresh of The Wanted's album. So we know that we won't be compared to the music video beacuse they're isn't one. So there is a clean slate and we can base it on the song completely and use a range of our own ideas. We chose this song over all of the other because; even though we had small ideas about the other songs. We knew we had a complete plan for this song. We could so the whole story of the music video, the actors we could get and the places. We knew it was all achievable, rather than going for the other songs and not knowing where we were going to shoot it and who we were going to get to act in it. This genre is pop, so we are still keeping to our original idea. With this song we can still keep our original 'Super Hero' idea which we wanted to do when we were looking at Boyband songs. So we are happy with our choice of song.
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