Song decision

After looking through the long list of song ideas that we collectively created we couldn't decide one a single one. Not one song stuck out for us and there was no clear story that we could picture or create for any other the songs.
So we was still in discussion and Jordan suggested a new band which he has seen playing on the Jools Holland show only the night before. We looked at the clip back from the previous and as there wasn't a video available for the song yet, and we instantly knew i was the song for us. The mix of an indie sound with a underlying electro base, with the narrative lyrics we knew it was perfect for us to create the narrative storyline we wanted.

Initial song ideas

We had a long list of song choices and looked at the various genres and musics types we would like to use for a video, we looked from R&B to rock and looked at the various conventions of each of the types of videos and how easy it would be to create. We mainly forcused on song of a 'indie' sound with a narrative to the song as we feel we would like to represent this type of narrative in our video. Here are some examples of songs we looked at:-

Brief Choice

From looking at the variety in the brief the exam board has published for our A2 media studies, i was initially drawn to creating a music video. Music for me is a huge part of my life, and a music video goes hand in hand with the actual track often this creates a whole new depth to the song itself.

Music videos for what i know about the conventions already, can either follow the songs narrative clearly or can be complete random to the song, either can create a different vibe for the track. I think that the work done by music directors helps to create a certain type of genre.

So i myself has decided to create music video, i am yet to chose the genre and my group but i feel a music video would be the most appropriate best suited to my skills.

Formal Brief

My A2 coursework portfolio must be:
a media portfolio, comprising a main and ancillary texts;
a presentation of your research, planning and evaluation in electronic format(s)
The portfolio will be produced through a combination of two or more of the following media:
Video
Print
Web-based
Audio
Games software

Chosen Brief
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
a website homepage for the band;
a cover for its release as part of the digipak (CD/DVD package);
a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).

Initial Meeting

After personally having an idea of creating a music video for my A2 media piece, i got together with some friends with similar ideas, and we agreed to work together creating a music video.

The group consists of Jordan Saville, Sam Avery, Jack Osman and myself.

We are yet to decide what track or genre we will create a video too, but we will start to look at each of the brief that would suit us a whole group with our cllective skills, i personally will be puting the idea forward of creating a music video, but i will listen to the other ideas of the group incase there is another brief more suited.