Foals - My Number
Our reasons for potentially choosing this song..
1) The song is up-beat with a feel good sound, which as a group we'd previously discussed was our desired genre and sound of music for our video.
2) The song is modern and contemporary as well as the band being new to the music industry, the lack of mainstream awareness for this song and band attracted our group as a song that isn't so well known perhaps allows us more freedom, due to lack of knowledge people would have on the original Foals music video.
3)This song would allow us to take numerous routes in our music video, due to the lack of direction and lyrical story the song has, this would enable us to brainstorm a creative and original music video idea, due to the lack of direction the song possesses.
And, are reasons against choosing Foals..
1) The fact that this song is from a male band would raise some difficulties as well perhaps taking away authenticity from our music video, due to being unable to lip sync to male voices; as well that our characters within the music video would be female. This negative factor is probably the most influential one to choose another song, due to it seems, us creating difficulties for ourselves when we could simply choose a female artist and this problem would be erased.
2) The sense of repetition within this song may create a difficulty in creating our music video, as it may cause our actions and potential sequences within the music video to feel constant and repeated and may cause a lack of audience appeal.
3)Similar to the second point, we feel due to similar sound throughout the song, there is no sudden change in the song, e.g a drop in the beat, this we believe may make our music video a little boring and simple, where there is no sudden change, in order to hold the audience's attention.
Corinne Bailey Rae- Put Your Records On
Reasons why this song appealed to us...
1) The female artist would allow us to being able to include lip syncing in our music video should we want too, as well as creating authenticity with our female character(s) within the video. Through choosing a female artist, we believe we eliminate numerous problems that occurred when looking at male artists.
2) Unlike 'Foals - My Number' this song was released in 2006 and is easily recognizable, however although this song is old and would be known to an audience, the idea of both reinventing and reintroducing it to the audience appealed to us, where an audience would perhaps be reminded of an 'old favorite', instantly creating an appeal without perhaps even seeing our video.
3) The genre of this song appealed to us through the calmness and mellow sounding, which is interestingly different from our other two options, however all songs incorporate a feel good sound, which is an element that is important to us within our music video.
As well as reasons why we are put off...
1)Undoubtedly this song has a strong summer vibe and sound to it, it is important to consider our weather conditions that are now available to us. With this in mind, should we of chosen this song, we perhaps could have caught bright autumnal days, however summer is now over and therefore the song and video may contrast and not look as good as we'd wanted.
2) The strong narrative is clear through the lyrics of this song, therefore it perhaps would of been difficult to interpret this song in our own way due to the clear story within the song. This may hinder our creative approach to this song, due to finding it difficult to move away from the original story.
3)Although this song incorporates a feel good sound, which definitely appealed to us as a group, it is however a slower song than that of the other options. This slower sound may restrict us in the music video, where we may perhaps be unable to create an upbeat and fun video due to the slower sounding song and it is particularly important to us this year that we are light hearted and fun with our project, due to the seriousness of our film opening last year, therefore we want to challenge ourselves with a new approach.
And finally, our chosen song.. One Day/Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)
Why we've decided as a group to go forward with this song..
1) The song is extremely upbeat, loud and lively which is all important elements we wanted to incorporate into our music video. As well as this, the song immediately starts with a strong beat, which allows us to go straight into our music video, hopefully creating a strong narrative piece and holding the interest of the audience due to the heavy and loud sounds.
2) Although the song does have a narrative, which becomes clear when reading the lyrics (of which I will post below) the narrative is in reference to 'One Day' which allows us the creative freedom of choosing the events within our 'One Day', unlike, say our second option where the narrative was clear and allowed no room for interpretation.
3) Through not choosing the original version of this song, 'Asaf Avidan - One Day' we are perhaps introducing this version to the audience. We ultimately decided to go for this version rather than the original due to the much faster pace than the orignal, furthermore although the song is new, we feel the remix version brings a contemporary sound and a modern beat, which appeals to us as a group to do both modern but yet somehow not mainstream and in this song, we believe we have found that.
As a group we made our final decision to move forward with this song due to the class pitch we did, where this song against our two other options was the clear winner.The narrative to this song also allows us a lot of creative freedom which is definitely appealing to us within the production of the video. This creative freedom is instantly evident when just looking at the genre of this song which includes Folk/Ethnic, House, Rock, Electronic and Dance. In consideration of this, we now feel we can move forward with creative ideas and concepts for our music video.
The upbeat sound of the song allows us to use quick transitions and interesting shots. As a group we've discussed how a split screen shot appeals to us at some point during the video, although we are not sure as yet where it may fit in, however the upbeat and liveliness of the song perhaps allows us to incorporate a variety of different and adventurous camera angles and movements. It's safe to say we are most definitely still at the 'drawing board' stages but so far, location wise we've discussed the possible use of parks, open spaces, residential areas, party scenes, as well as city locations.
The concepts includes the journey throughout 'One Day' which therefore allows us to use numerous locations that are characters are travelling through. Our angle and take on this song is the concept of characters, most probably the four of us, looking back on 'One Day' that they wish they could re- live. At the moment, we are discussing the idea of the music video beginning in our mundane jobs and current situations, which are then contrasted to the care free and freedom filled day that is reflected on, ultimately creating a contrasting of 'then and now'.
Website link to our chosen song's lyrics
http://www.lyricsmania.com/one_day_reckoning_song_lyrics_wankelmut.html
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