Choosing a new song

 In today’s lesson, we had another disscusion with my team and the teachers. Talking about everything that we have researched and the style that we want to do for the music video, we were told that it simply still doesn’t match the happy tone of the song that we had chosen and also that the song we had chosen is more of a video that would have to be shot outside in a city, whereas we are in the countryside where we only have access to a studio. After a while of thinking what to do, we were proposed to look at other song from the same artist, Edy Blue. After listening to all of her songs we had found a couple of songs called “All the Beautiful girls” which is more moody, “Bliss” which is more up-beat and Original which is really energetic.

After listening to these three songs together as a group, we all agreed that “All the Beautiful Girls” is the most suitable because it matched the last version of our mood boards: moody, nostalgic.

However, when showing the song to our teachers they said that this song is to complicated because not only is a single artist which already is more complicated then a band, but it also has lyrics that are hard to work with (repetitive sounds which are actually meant to be sang with an audience in a live performance). 

At this point we decided we have to choose another artist because this one simply doesn’t have any songs that would suit a music video filmed in a studio. 

After the lesson I started looking at other songs on band camp.

In 20 minutes I managed to find some songs that could work such as “OFF/ON” by Death Hags, “For My Animals” by American Culture, “I feel alive” by TOPS and “color theory” by Soccer Mommy. I then screenshot the songs and sent the to our teams’s group chat on Snapchat to let them now that this is what I had found so far.

Later today, I meet with Alexandra to listen to the songs I had found together. We both agreed that “OFF/ON” by Death Hags would be the best option for a few reasons: it’s a band which we can easily cast as I had casted some boys from a band a few weeks ago for my previous team, it has a lot of interesting instrumental elements to it.

Conclusion: We will probably change the song to “OFF/ON” by Death Hags, but I have to talk to the whole team tomorrow to hear their opinion before making any decisions. If we choose this song we really just talk about how do we see the main singer dress up, in what environment they would hang out in and what are they intersted in. We also have to think about casting and the band’s style. Only after that will we have to redo all the mindmaps/ treatments.