My Music Video: from Research to Filming

Our group spent a long a time on deciding a song to use. We looked at so many different ones we just decided to pick whichever was good enough to fit the story. I personally do not like the song we chose, but that’s just my opinion. I think that the song fits the story, but not the genre we chose because we were going to pick a classic rock song, but we could not decide on what we wanted to do.

We went on your YouTube for a while and we kind of got an idea on what we wanted to do story wise, but it was difficult to find ideas so we came with the basic idea of someone breaking up. I thought this would be difficult because of the story and our genre of classic rock don’t exactly go well. I say this because classic rock is groups of people dancing and being rebellious to society. I think are ideas were not exactly creative, but it gets the job done.

The conventions of our music video are quite stereo typical because we use lots of well used thing like the weather being dull and grey to represent sadness and the main actor (Aaron) looking sad. I believe that we do not really have many conventions within the video just because it’s kind of the same thing throughout besides the fact we use a time lapse to symbolise time passing. I think it’s a shame that we could not vary the video much, but we could not find much inspiration so we kind of winged it with the conventions because they would take too long to come up with so we just used the basic stereotypical stuff. I do believe we met the ones we used because we somewhat tried to.

Research helped a little because, but was not extremely helpful because we struggled to come up with an idea on what song we should use even after about an hour looking at various songs we went with a newer song called fallout which fits the story, but not the genre. I feel like we did do enough research, but it was not really effective research because we spent most of our research time looking for songs and not for ideas which is the reason we came up with a simple idea.