Blog 3 - Song choice.

The song choice myself and my group (Oz and Dezzy) have all chosen the song ‘The only exception’. We spent the session browsing through YouTube and looking through particular songs we may wish to do. We thought that we should get something with a beat and possibly a female singer. So Paramore was a great choice. After looking through a variety of different song choices, we made a list of four particular songs which we would look at, study the lyrics and see what possibilities we may have for making these songs into music videos. The four songs which we had were:

Paramore: The only exception.


This is the song we decided to choose. I will be explaining why we decided to choose this song later in this blog.

The verve: Drugs don’t work.

Although we had a female singer in thought, we decided to have a look at this song. The music video could also have influenced us to do it because it holds a lot of good editing in but we didn’t want our music video to be similar to this music video; especially not with the same song but it sure does inspire us to do some form of editing used in this music video to use when creating ours. We turned this song down because there was a better choice in storyline for ‘The only exception’.

Avril Lavinge: Complicated.

This song was a good choice because it has attitude in and can be targeted to the younger generation because it’s the form of music which they will be attached to. It also shows rebellious teens in the video; this being quite good because it brings out a good choice of settings and which generation we can appeal to. Though, we chose not to do this song because we didn’t want it to seem similar or familiar to the official music video of the song.

Vanessa Carlton – A thousand miles.

To begin with, this was the song we may have gone with and we had a lot of ideas about this song. Maybe take Vanessa’s influence of the way that it looks as though she floating with the keyboard along streets and fields etc. We had the idea that we could set parts of it in the music room where instruments would be; which we could use to form a band and then it could cut into a mid shot of somebody walking towards the camera across the town. Passing people by etc but then we decided that we wanted to express the video more. Have a chance to make it our own and try a challenge in forming a video which a lot of effort and editing could be put into it to make it match with the song and lead a possible story. With ‘The only exception’ we have a story in mind. Which again, I will write later on in the blog.

We chose ‘The only exception’ because its truthful, the lyrics suit well with a storyline we have and also we have a range of possibilities that we could do to make this into a good music video. Of course, making sure that we try to suit up to the expectations of the music video. We’ve decided that we could do something like set it in the music room with the instruments and cut it into shots out and about in other settings to form a narrative. This way it includes more into the music video and sets us targets to form a good music video in order to establish a successful music video.


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