Song Choices and Ideas

Between me and Sarah we knew from the start that we wanted to base our music video on Performance, but also with a narrative.

We were struck by the idea of doing a performance based after we had watched the video Faint by Linkin Park. (Blog post below by Sarah).
We were attracted to the lighting that fitted with the ‘cut on beat’. Although we did not like the cut on beat in Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers (other Blog below by Me) in the music video Faint we both agreed that the way it was structured was appealing to an audience and it was a powerful opening.

After watching previous A2 music videos from Thurston one video caught our attention the most. We liked the performance based video All The Rage by Funeral for a Friend. In the video they had their performance and a story to accompany it.
The story was interesting and we both found that it went really well with the performance as it didn’t make the video too boring with just the performance.



Song and Artist Choices

The Summer Set - Punch-Drunk Love
All American Rejects
The Summer Set - Passenger Seat

We chose to look at The Summer Sets music because the music is fun and lively. We would like to work with some lively music and we like the idea of fitting a band to this type of music.



We didn’t really look into any particular music from All American Rejects apart from one song which we liked.
We looked at ‘It Ends Tonight’ because although this performance is different to what we are looking at, it is still a performance. Its different to the idea that we want to use. We like the idea of having a band with a lead singer, guitar and drums. In this video it still has performance in it just with a piano instead.
Throughtout the video the band move away from the piano and slowly begin to set up a ‘stage’ were they perform with a microphone, guitar and drums. We like the idea of swticthing through different instruments.