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Two Door Cinema Club : Eat Up That's Good For You
This was one of our first choices for a song, we liked how the song was quite upbeat and worked well with some of the ideas we had at the beginning of decision making (powder paint). Another positive point towards the song is that Two Door Cinema Club are my favourite band and I absolutely love this song.
However we decided not to go with this song for the following reasons.' Eat Up That's Good for You' is sung by a male lead, and so we found that that would be difficult to portray and work around in our video. Also after a while of listening to this song we found that it may have been too fast paced, and once we found Starry Eyed we realised that that had a beat that we thought would suit better to our ideas. Furthermore even though being my favourite band that could've been a negative, as I may have not wanted to take risks with it and will have wanted to just do it justice !

The Joy Formidable : Wolf's Law
We originally found this song due to the video, as it included a montage of fast paced shots. We also liked the variety of beats throughout the song, and  the build up nearer the end.
This song we found was very different to TDCC's, as the beat was a lot slower and the song itself seemed quite sad and mellow, which was not what we were originally aiming for.Furthermore the song didn't match with our idea's (powder paint) as we were basing our video around being fun and colourful and this song was quite the opposite of that. Also despite having a build up of the beat nearer the end of Wolf's Law, as a group we decided we didn't want to wait that long to show a more fun and creative side of our video.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
When we first heard this song we really liked it and thought that maybe it had some potential. However we couldn't decide on an idea or storyline that would fit with this song. The only creative that we could think of was to show random montage shots into our film, which we thought wouldn't be as creative or fun to work with. There's also male vocals included in this song and that is something that we previously realised we didn't want, so therefore thought this song would be too difficult to work with.

Powder Paint

 So here is a music video I found by Madeon which has similar creative idea's to ours. From the very beginning of brainstorming ideas we were sure we wanted to use powder paint and now have decided on some shots around the use of powder paint. Hopefully we'll be able to accomplish all of our plans !

Plan

So this is just a quick first plan that Alice and I did of our music video. Seen as we finally have chosen our song we decided to jot down a few ideas about what we actually want in the content of the video (possible shots, lip syncing, location).
We also already have shots that we have taken from when Alice and I were away during our summer holiday and so will hope to find a way to include them into our video in a possible montage.

Creative Ideas

This is probably one of my favourite music videos at the moment, it's very simple however I love the contrast
of the colours, and the powder paint !
We discussed using powder paint when we first spoke about our music video, and I think we are pretty set on using it. The contrast of the dull and bright colours is also something I think would make the music video look more effective, even though its quite a simple task to do.

Song Choice

Even though this song is a little bit more upbeat than Wolf's Law it's still not 'fun' enough for our ideas.
However researching for a song is giving us more and more of an idea of what kind of audio we want
to create our music video around !

Video Inspiration

 Recently found this music video which I love. It gives us some creative ideas about all the random shots just moulded into one, however all the shots are linked.
However we decided we didn't like the song as we thought that maybe it was a bit too slow for our music video and ideas. This does give us more of an idea about what song we would like to choose though !

Song Choice

I think Mac 1 have finally settled on a song to create our music video around. We thought that it had a lot of potential and suited with some of our previous ideas about the video itself.
We wanted to choose a more upbeat song instead of a more mellow and sad one so we could be more creative with it, and also have more fun !

The song we have chosen is Ellie Goulding 'Starry Eyed' :