The final two

After looking at all the different songs i could pick i have got stuck on two possible choices. 

I like both of these for different reason but the thing i like is that you could do something fun with both of them, i want my video to be happy because after looking at a selection of past a2 music videos i think they work the best. 

N.1. This is Is your love Big Enough by Lianne La Havas 

I like this because i have a lot of ideas and i think you could do something really interesting between visuals and lyrics. 

The beat is also good because its strong, and its also a happy song. 

The most important things to me are that not many people have heard the song or even seen the music video, and i also think there is a lot you can do with it. 
I don't find the music video that interesting and i think that you could do something a lot better so it gives you a blank canvas to work with. 

Here i thought you could have some stop motion which i think would be fun to try and not very typical of a music video which i have seen in some past student examples and has worked well. 

N.2. Summer Time Sadness Remix by Lana Del Rey

what i think could work well from this song is the beat, i chose the remix over the original in some of my feedback on my survey there was an opinion on using the original but i felt that i wanted to do a faster song and i find the original slightly to slow.  
my Idea for this video was completely different to the music video, although i did think you could do something really cool with colour manipulation and overlapping images. 
What i wanted to do with this song is for it to be cold and in parts snowing ( this could be homemade fake snow) and i thought the stark contrast would be funny and explain the whole 'summer time sadness' because it would have felt like so long ago. 

cover.

While still deciding on my final songs out of  ' Is your love big enough' and 'summer time sadness remix', i came across this cover of summer time sadness. 

I find covers really interesting and i find this one very different to the ordinal song which i found refreshing. The whole song is given a semi reggie feel which although i would use instead of one of my song choices i think it shows how songs can be completely changed and become something almost unrecognisable.  

If i did decide to do a remix and if i chose this one if would completely change my mind and ideas of what to do. 

class work - Brainstorm

In class the other day i spent some portion of the lesson coming up with ideas with possible ideas. I picked one of the two songs i'm still deciding on, i wanted to see if the Lianee la Havis song had enough possible parts and scenes to it. I managed to come up with some ideas and thought of both scenes and camera angles.

Goodwins Theory

Goodwins from Daisy Beaven

Cool videos, ideas.

I find this video really interesting and mainly the way it was done with the mise en scene. Location and scene wise its something very different and is constantly using some of goodwins theory through voyeurism. There is also a constant link between the lyrics and the visuals which is different because the type of people they have used in the song is not what i was expecting from the song when i originally heard it. I think this can give me some good advise for my own music video and that is that i can do something completely different and unexpected and it will still work if you still relate it to the lyrics. What i really find different about this video is that is one long shot that starts off looking like a photo.

                  
 As you can see from the photo the whole idea of the video is that it constantly zooms and and back into a different scene or part of the song. There are almost little actions going on between everyone and they all link to the song and what is being sang at that moment. The location is contrasting to the people that are in the image, the people you see are all quite rough and people you would expect to see in such an ornate building.  The space/ room also looks empty but i think this is linking to the song because it is about space and living and when the camera does zoom out to show everyone they do look very small in comparison. The costume also goes along with the rough feel with the boy's wearing stereo typical baggy trousers and lots of gold jewelry and the girls wearing things that are short and tight. This again is contrasting with their surroundings. The music video is also using some of Goodwins theory by using voyeurism and having the image mirror the lyrics, from the picture below the line is 'i'm sniffing' and as you can see the man is clearly sniffing. But like i was talking about before its happening in a way to carry on with the 'street feel'.  The picture above is showing the voyeurism and what i find interesting about this is how the 'street' person is saying some of the lyrics 'i'm spinning' and he isn't even part of the band. I think for my own video i could do something contradictory, but i don't think it will work that well with either of the songs i might want to do. It would also be hard for me to do a certain location but i like the lighting/ coloring its a bit like a sepia/instagram tone which i think i could use in parts of my video.

                            

Past Student work - Beyonce

Psw from Daisy Beaven

Survey..

If anyone could complete my survey it would be very helpful!
I did this to help me decide what music video to through audience research.. 




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