Planning: Choosing our song + Pitches

Following on from my first post, here are the steps that we went through before we narrowed down our song choices and the research that we carried out. Before beginning the music video, we all needed to decide on a final song choice for the group, we researched into the different music genres that we like and could potentially choose a song from. The genres we researched were Indie, RnB and rock.

Initially, in our group there was no real pressing song that we had in mind for our music video, so we decided to brainstorm ideas for potential choices. We looked through the BBC chart playlist, our iPods, and music magazines to gain inspiration for our song choice as well as researching different genres of music.

Through this process we came up with several song choices in which we all liked, from there we then went through an elimination process trying to narrow down our choices to the songs we wanted to for our final production by printing out the lyrics and constructing potential narratives. It came down to two songs that we all agreed on, both from the same artist; Paramore. The songs that we narrowed it down too was The Only Exception and Misery Business. These two songs are completely different to each other, The Only Exception is much slower compared to Misery Business however they have a similair narrative to do with love and relationships. We decided as a group to ask our peers as well as pitching both song ideas to our media teachers. Our peers preferred Misery Business over The Only Exception, because they believed it would be a more interesting and captivating video to shoot and watch. We pitched our songs idea last week to our teachers, where they gave their opinion and advised us to choose Misery Business for the reasons being that it would challenge our group in terms of all areas from creativity to production and editing work. As a group we came to agree on choosing Misery Business as our song choice for our music video production. We are pitching our Misery Business song choice and concept to our teachers tomorrow where we will include information about the songs narrative, the style guide, locations, costumes and audience research.