Group Split

Our group hasfinally split. We have had 3 group meetings discussing whether we working well enough as a group. NOw its Me and Jack as a group and Loren and Nisha as another. Me and Jack already have our song Stockholm Syndrome-Blink 182 and are well underway with creating a treatment on the group blog.

THE TRACK!

We've finally picked a song and are well under-way with the treatment on our group blog and in our meetings. The song is Maroon 5 Featuring Rihanna- If I Never See Your Face Again

Maroon 5 feat. Rihanna - If I never see your face again

The last 2 Ideas

These will be last 2 track ideas as I am producing to many and need to narrow the list down. But so far these two and one other are the faveourite ones I've thought of.
Never Had It- The Flobots

I think this song would work well for our group as we have a girl and boy part we can use. It could use 3 singers aswell by actually using the right amount of male singers but it could be done using 2.

On My Own Time-Gym Class Heroes (sorry for poor quality, could only find live version)

I love the feel to this song, and if we could use animation like in the 'Example-Watch The Sun Come Up' video I think we could make a very interesting video. I was imagining quite literal at points, as in where he unzips his skin the lead singer becomes drawn and literally unzips his skin. I also had an edit idea where he says 'turn the page' where the singer is singer and then when he says that line becomes drawn and the image is folded over to a new shot. The song is about struggle in life but music helps him through it so i see the video being about him writing songs and performing them. The video would be based more aorund the clever effects.

Treatment

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Impression That I Get

I've just reads Jack's treatment for this song and i really like the idea of showing other people having all these things going wrong but not for the singer. I think this could work really well with the idea of zooming into photos where the band are performing and showing it aswell as maybe having during the verses, the lead singer who's walking along the street in which when people walk past it zooms into them and shows how somethings gone wrong. The lead singer walks along the street really happy where as everyone else is miserable. It also cuts between shots of the band performing which is where the singer eventually reaches. I think at the end something bad could actually happen to the lead singer, which is really unexpected and over the top. Another idea could be that as he walks down the street he seems to avoid bad things really closely, like a flower pot falls down and just misses him, or he nearly gets splashed by a huge puddle.

Square One

After our second group meeting with gone back on all our original ideas and realised none of them would be that great for music video. So we've all been sent home to just gather a list of songs we think might work well then throw them together in our next group meeting.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Impression That I Get


You Me At Six-You've Made Your Bed


The Specials-Do Nothing


The Rocket Summer-Never Knew


Lupe Fiasco-Fighters


The Devil Wears Prade-Still Fly(cover)


Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova-When your mind's made up

Track Idea

Jose Gonzalez-Cycling Trivialities

This song is beautiful and I absolutely love it but I think if making a music video there could be an issue as the song doesn't completely end till around 7 minutes 18 seconds however it carries on the guitar from about 4:35 till then without changing much at all so it could be possible to cut some out. But this would still mean it is a long video. However, I think the song could work really well as it has a really strong meaning of how our lives are so small compared to how big the universe is and how we might think all our issues are huge but they won't even make a difference to the future. I think in a music video this could be represented through an everyday scenario of how a family man has all these decisions to make and seems to put a lot of thought into them and gets stressed about them but every so often their is something much larger and meaningful which he ignores i.e he is on the phone trying to make a buisness deal and the news is on about a tragedy and he flicks it off to concentrate on the phone. Another example is that he is choosing a suit to buy and after purchasing one he walks past a homeless person who has tattered clothes and asks the man for help which he ignores. The video would show how people think so much of their lives and the little things when much more important things are happening around them which they pay little attention to.

Track Idea

Kid British-Hot n Cold(cover)

I had no idea for this song, of the story of a girl and boy, where the girl is constantly playing around with the guy. She'll leave him then want him back. Throughout the story she can't decide what she wants whether she wants the guy or not untill the end where the boy gets a new girl. This would cut between shots of the performance who could be performing in locations similar to that of the narrative, so they'd be performing in a living room whilst the couple have an argument. Also they might appear in parts of the narrative but be like part of the background and not be interacting with the narrative.

Track Idea

Kid British-Sunny Days

I think this song could work really well for our music video. It can have a good bit of performance as well as a narrative. I was thinking that the song could just be about a guy who's on his way to work and just a normal day in London. It's really rainy, dark, just not a very nice day. He see's a really pretty girl and gets turned down. Nothings going well for the guy. I think it would add another meaning to the song, and really make people listen to the lyrics as it does say 'No more sunny days'

Track Idea

I really like this song and really like the idea of going with a song from this sort of genre of acoustic rap as I think its very niche and never really been attempted before by a student.

Lyrics:

I know times seem rough

but for a 100 bad years is a thousand good ones

and that's real

(Chorus)

Oh, feel like the road so hard,

struggling right trying to stay strong,

I know, keep ya head up, oh, keep ya head up, keep ya head up

Never give up, Keep ya head up.

Everything going so wrong, got on one knee

Praying to my god

keep ya head up, keep ya head up, I never give up, never give up

(Verse 1)

This goes to ever dreamer, as a motivation,

The motive is to motivate, and indivually make it

I still made it, crusading, through the hating

the ocean waving, got me thinking of upgrading

mic skills like still, and the displacement,

my environment far out like strong safeties,

help me back like wave braces,

oh wait I forgot, no time to waste like aid patients,

so i keep going, on my own,

its like every morning I keep falling

when I'm barely crawling,

feel like my life on tall glasses, slow moments, I'm Paul Walling aw man

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)

Never let them judge even when its admitted,

I admit my past had lots of bad in it,

shouldn't stopped me being copied by the world should it,

I mean would I be wrong if I didn't evolve from it,

shit, my darlings got me up like slow signals,

saying I need my visual, I put my all in it,

tyga man's best friend slash no contenders

no competing, no one man league, one born one man leave,

is part of being from these wicked streets,

city thieves, commit trouble, eventually end up, in dirt shovelled

but stay focused you'll reach a higher level above abuse and baby sitters, wave setters

now better stage setters, rocking show, never regreting,

pricey clothes but always remembered when you had no dough

now you see the same folks living with hope, i told you so

(Chorus)

So you reached the end, or what I like to call, the beginning

so lets begin

just keep ya head up, and never give up

thats how I got here

What I like about the song is the mood to it, and i think it'd be really interesting for in a music video to have a guitarist and the rapper. Its also a very good feel good song so many ideas could be based around the idea of a struggle or things going wrong. Another idea is to have the video as very contrasting too the lyrics where everything starts to go wrong in the video but at the end the character is still happy.