Music and genre's to consider for my work

My next song is Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, the genre for this song is actually Dance-Pop, this genre doesn't exist in in the 2000 era as Pop and R&B and alternate rock and dubstep have had a much larger cultural impact in terms of song use, however this song is popular because of it's use as a modern internet prank, however besides this it was a massive hit when it was released back in 1987, the use of background actors and dancers does appeal to me quite a bit, and so i might employ use of background actors and dancers in my music video

Pitching a video idea for a preselected music choice

For my latest task i was asked to create a pitch for a music video,

The music i was given was this:

It's black hole sun by Soundgarden

I wasn't shown the music video before hand and pretty much had to guess what i would imagine it being like, my own idea of it was that the song would open with a really generic looking rockband with minimal talent appear on a stage, starting to play music but a huge thunderstorm hits the stage and everything comes to life and this soon brings the statues at the sides of the stage to life and as they pick up giant instruments and begin playing them.

The crowd below the stage are soon swaying in time to the music and at the end of the song after a few minutes of electrifying music, the crowd and everything else disappears except for the band who finish the song in a deserted field.

Writing up about gotye and lady gaga's music videos and doing some comparisons

Well last week, as this is when i officially started writing about it, i viewed 2 videos and decided to compare the music, so after watching the lady gaga video i decided that lady gaga is continuing to create her own unique style of music and this shows in her videos as the whole concept is constantly changing so lighting is changing whilst all of the background also changes, this might be to represent the different states of romance or of someone's mind.

The camera angles are always different and the camera does move around the set and doesn't stay static unlike the gotye video where the camera sits pretty much in the same spot for the whole video, however lady gaga's video is a very over the top affair and doesn't have the simplistic beauty of the gotye video

The gotye video is very simple, a half-naked guy starts to sing and as he does the walls begin to get painted in triangles and so does he and the a half-naked lady also emerges and they sing together until
she leaves.

Now this video doesn't have a mass of expensive sets or back-up dancer it's just a simple down to earth videos also the use of in-video art really brings it alive and makes it a wonderful video to watch

More music for research purposes and genre's

My next song is Cult Of Personality by Living Colour,now this song was released in 1988 which isn't very long ago however Living Colour are only well known in America as they never really expanded themselves out towards the rest of the world, however this song has seen a sudden trend in popularity due to WWE Superstar Cm Punk using it as his entrance music, the song is in the Funk-metal/Heavy-metal genre, me personally i get more of a rock vibe of this music but i can see where elements of  heavy metal come into play, the video depicts famous political and religious figures as well as mentioning them ,which might give this song a political context, however i do like the idea of using world leaders in my video and i will consider using it

Additional music and genres to explore

This song is hey ya by outkast, it was released in 2004 and is part of the alternate hip-hop and funk genre's however i'll stick to hip-hop form this video because it does have more of a ahip-hop vibe to it where it's one of those songs people would dance to in large groups.

The video itself is fairly intresting, i might steal the stage like set for my video when i begin to draft ideas

Ideas for music videos and genres

My next video is the song Brand New Day by Sting, now lot's of people my age might have heard of sting but won't really know who he is or what kind of music he plays, no i felt that this pop-rock video gave off vibes of religious ideas like the man standing on the hill who could be perceived as Jesus or a messiah, which i found interesting, now i grew up with my dad listening to sting so i do recognise when his work when it's played through any medium of technology, now the idea of a music video like this is to take a popular song from a popular artist from around our time 1990's and use that to increase the amount of people who might watch the video.

Music i might consider using for my project as well as examples of genre's 3

Now this music video is from the pop genre back all the way from 1983, so this song is 11 years older than myself, however it does have a classical feel to it and i thought that does give it a good reason for being choosen to be a piece of music i could consider doing or at least look at it to take ideas for my project.

Music i might consider using for my project as well as examples of genre's 2

Well my second song is Airplanes by B.O.B and Paramore's Hayley Williams, now this song is listed as being under alternative hip-hop, now me personally i actually agree with this genre choice, because it's a little bit more meaningful than the ready made pop songs we get nowadays, anyway this video seems quite interesting and it does make me think about how i might produce my video.

Music i might consider using for my project as well as examples of genre's

Here is the first video of this research series,it's a take by the artist seal on the classic soul song, a change is gonna come, the song was released way back in 1964 by Sam Cooke but seal did a take on it for his 2008 album soul, where he covered a range of classical soul  music and the sequel to that soul 2

This music is a good example of soul based music

Beginning My Research

Just like last year, i can't go into just making this video, i have to take time and plan it from the smallest detail,for example i have to pick a genre of music to use or a particular song, next i need to plan how my video will relate to my music and third i need to decide filming locations for my video, however the three things i just listed are the main things i need to sort for this video, i haven't even mentioned the smaller things which effectively add up to making a very good video.


The project begins in September with me picking/working with a partner/partners or by myself after i decide that or am forced to join a group then i follow this list of directions to produce the music video


Firstly i need to select music(this will most likely be done for September, however i feel like i might lean towards a Soul, R&B or Pop video)
next i then need to look at music videos of those particular genres and look for outlying characteristics of each video and list them down.

Then i would look at storyboarding my ideas of how i would go around working on my project and what it could look like

After that i will need to write to the artist whose music i select and ask for permission to use their music in my video(there's no point producing a video if i don't have the music)

Then when i get permission to use the music, i can begin scouting or looking at locations where i would like to consider shooting.

Then i would look at how i could advertise my music video through use of mediums like radio/magazines/Internet/facebook and then produce at least 2 forms of advertisement

After this i can start filming the video in my locations and put together a few promo videos to help with my advertising.

After this i would finish filming, edit the video together and release it(and submit it to the exam board)

This process will take me up to at least next may without including all of the exam based revision as well as trips which will fill the rest of the year up.

In my next few post i will be showing some of music videos of the genre's i might pick and then some songs that i'm considering using for the project because i like them.