Final Song Decision

For our music video we have decided to make a video to Katy Perrys-Teenage Dream. However, originally I did not like the song due to personal reasons such as the song is very 'over played' as the song is it reached number 1 in America, Ireland and New Zealand. Also, the video to Teenage Dream was recently released so we were worried if we would copy the video without us knowing, though after a long discussion we decided that when we made and edited our video it would be an 'old' song. In our group we came up with many ideas which we could use for the video for example, an old couple going back in time to when they were younger which was inspired by Jason Derulo- What If video. We all agreed that we wanted to use this song to create our music video.
This is the video to Katy Perry-Teenage Dream

The Final Three

We finally narrowed our song decision to three different songs Pink- Runaway, Example- Fast Cars and Katy Perry- Teenage Dream.

Pink- Runaway

We think that Pink- Runaway could make a good music video because:

• With the lyrics we could make an interesting story of a girl struggling with her life and wanting to runaway. We felt like everyone could relate to the video of wanting to get away from their life "Run away life don't make any sense to me" this could work to our advantage as people will empathise and understand the girls feelings.
• We feel that this video would suit the night time in a busy area as we could use a variety of close up shots and split screen to show the girl frightful, as she is in a city that she does not know and the other screen could show people walking towards her and looking at her strangely "I wonder if it was a mistake" could emphasize her feelings of regret with fast pace editing.
• We could imagine the girl smashing photograph frames against the wall and the floor which would match the beat but we would have to do this when editing.
• The lyrics are dark and emotional "You go your way I meet you in hell" this could make our video stand out because it is not a typical love story and it could put a twist on the pop genre.

However, the bad points to Pink- Runaway is:

• The camera shots would be too repetitive as the song is about a girl running away and we would mostly have pan follow or close ups.
• The video may be too depressing that the viewer would loose interest.
• The verse has a slow beat and the editing will be slow pace this could be a limitation as the viewer may loose interest and we could loose marks.
• We thought that we could film the girl living on the streets though we later realised that the lyrics for a verse was "I could sing for change on a Paris street, Be a red light dancer in New Orleans" however we do not have to actually film in Paris and America we thought the video was about dreaming so it would of been better if we did.

Example- Fast Cars

We think that Example- Fast Cars could make a good music video because:

• Their is a male and female vocalist which could be interesting to have both male and female different view points.
• The song is not popular in comparison to Examples other songs but Tracey Chapman- Fast Cars which is the chorus is very popular this could be an advantage as we could create our own interpretations to the song meaning.
• We could use a local area to film as our location as the song talks about not bring in Hollywood and not having a glamorous lifestyle "This ain't hollywood, need a jolly good line" this could help us with our low budget.
• The song we could be interpreted in many ways for example, three quarters in to the song a tyre screetching is played and the lyric "Shit, I should of missed her" represents that the man who was driving had run a women over, before that part of the song the artist sings "You have seen a killer with a smile this hard" which says that he killed some one or it could of been conveyed that it was a dream as the artist is singing about his dream girl "Angelina Jolie" and his dream car a "Ferrari".

However, the bad points to Example- Fast Cars is:

• It could be very difficult as the song is aboutcars and living the dream lifestyle, we can't drive and we don't know any one with a Ferrari or a Porsche which the boy in the song is driving.
• We would have to rely on a man acting and performing in our video, we would have to trust them to attend meetings, filming and to be on time.

Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

We think that Katy Perry- Teenage Dream would make a good music video because:

• We could use a variety of camera shots like an high angle shot to show puzzle pieces and we could edit the footage to make it seem animated and like the footage flows.
• The song is upbeat and we could have fast pace editing like shots of the male and female point of view.
• Good narrative story as it is about teenage love and feeling like the couple feels like teenagers in love.

However, the bad points to Katy Perry- Teenage Dream is:

• The song is well known so we could disappoint fans.
• The music video was recently released so people may be expecting our music video to be like the original video.

Original song ideas

In the beginning everyone had different ideas on what songs we wanted to produce a music video to as everyone liked different genres. These are the songs that the group had wanted to do.

Example-'Fast Cars'
Lady Antebellum-'Need You Now'
30 Seconds to Mars-'Beautiful Lie'
Pink-'Runaway'
Beyonce-'Halo'
Christina Aguilera-'Oh Mother'
The Script-'For the First Time'
Florence and the Machine-'Dog Days are Over'
Alica Keys- Unthinkable
Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

However, in the end we decided not to pick any of these songs as we could all not agree on one particular song such as I did not want to create a music video to Pink- Runaway, even though it is a great song I felt like we could not make a good music video to it. The song is about a girl running away from her home life and I think that we would of kept repeating the same scenes in most of the song so we would not have a variety of locations and camera shots, we did not have the budget to make the music video. Originally we had the idea that we would film the girl living on the streets though we later realised that the lyrics for a verse was "I could sing for change on a Paris street, Be a red light dancer in New Orleans" even though we did not have to actually film in Paris and America we thought the video was about dreaming so it would of been better if we did.
All of the songs that we had wanted to do would of been extremley difficult as most of them have memorable music videos anyway and we did not want fans of the artist to be disappointed in our video.

In our list of possible songs I wanted to create our music video to Example- Fast Cars as I felt that we could of done a lot with the song and the song has both a male and female vocalist which would of been interesting to get both view points. The song is not very well known in comparison to Example's other songs, this could of been an advantage as no one could of compared our video to the original. I thought that with the song we could have interpreted in many ways for example, three quarters in to the song a tyre screetching is played and the lyric "Shit, I should of missed her" represents that the man who was driving had run a women over, before that part of the song the artist sings "You have seen a killer with a smile this hard" which says that he killed some one or it could of been conveyed that it was a dream as the artist is singing about his dream girl "Angelina Jolie" and his dream car a "Ferrari". I played the song to the group and they did not think that the song would of been good to make a music video too as it would of been very difficult as the song is about cars and living the dream lifestyle, we can't drive and we don't know any one with a Ferrari or a Porsche which the boy in the song is driving. I was disappointed that we did not choose the song though I later released we could of made a video to the song as we don't have the budget and we would ultimately disappoint fans.

Finally, we chose to create our music video to Katy Perry- Teenage Dream as we had many ideas on what we could do for our music video and we all agreed that our music video would be more successful if we choose this song than the others. Although, the video was recently released and people will know the song we thought this could be an advantage as people cannot be disappointed with the video as we will include Teenage love which is the main story in the song.