Song Research

Yesterday we got together with the intention of choosing a track for our music video. We discussed artists that we believed could be suitable, and eventually we decided that 3oh!3 would be suitable and meet the requirements we thought of prior to searching. 

We watched as many of 3oh!3's music videos as we could, to get a feel for their style, then began listening to their songs - without videos. We knew that we wanted to choose one without a video so we wouldn't be subliminally influenced.

We considered I'm Not Your Boyfriend Baby amongst others, but came to the conclusion that the song; Deja Vu had the strongest lyrics for a narrative, and had no expletive language unlike the majority of other tracks. We researched 3oh!3 and discovered their iconic image which we now know we need to incorporate into the video.

Today we got together again to focus on our new choice. We decided to plan a rough idea of what to do for the video. Initially we came to the conclusion that we would like:

• A narrative with the storyline linked to the lyrics, featuring the artist miming
• A plain, empty room solely for the artist
• Fast, varied cuts
• At least one section with sped up photographed stills

Next, knowing what we were setting out to achieve we listened to the song the whole way through, each mentally forming ideas of what we could do. The second time through we paused after each line and exchanged ideas. Most of the time they were actually quite similar, other times; one idea would outshine the others so we went with those, and a few times we disagreed so we kept talking until we reached a unanimous decision.

Some of Sophie's ideas stood out:

• Filming out of a car window at night, then speeding up the footage in order to create a blur of lights which should create a preferred reading of the main character travelling between locations.
• When the main character emerges from a females house after a one night stand, his clothes should be on back-to-front/inside out, etc for a comical effect.

Amy's:

• Thought through the practicalities of our intended plan of having our main character jumping out of a second storey window.
• She also said that she could borrow some real police equipment and clothing from a policeman she knows for our 'officer officer' scene.

Mine:

• Suggested the idea of involving a seperate room for the artist, aside from the narrative in order to make the video more conventional and busy.
• Focused on the camera angles and movement in each frame.
• Organised the group during our discussion in order to make our ideas merge rather than clash.
• Am taking on the responsibility of gaining the use of a taxi for our 'cab driver cab driver' scene.
• I'm also looking into venues available for our useage that have a bar.

The rest of the planning stage was a combination of all of our ideas put together. Sophie has the written copy of the notes we made which she should scan to our group blog.