As part of our research, we listened to some potential songs that could be used for our music video. The method we used was a 'Blind Listen', this means that we listened to the music, however, we did not watch the original music video. We used this method so that we would be able to think of ideas for the music video ourselves without being influenced by the original. Before this, we had a list of roughly 15 songs and we cut this selection down to our top four which are listed and analysed below.
The first song that we listened to was Henry Krinkle - Stay. This particular song has a rather long introduction, so idea's such as creating a 'past story' were created to feel up this time gap before the lyrics commence. We could then refer to the past story in short cuts throughout the music video. The beat of the music is very catchy and is like club/dance music. This type of music genre would be excellent for all of the special effects that could be implemented into our video, for example, a lot of strobe lights and a single bright flashing colour in a blacked out room. A disadvantage of this song would be that where it is very much like music you would expect to hear in a club, there are hardly any lyrics as the same line is repeated throughout the song and without a good set of lyrics throughout the song, it would be hard for us to work with.
The second song that my team listened to was Lorde - Tennis Courts. This song has dark and mysterious vibes which we could do a lot with if we have the right singer for it. The lyrics are also quite peculiar meaning that we can easily implement a lot of weird and fun ideas into our music video which would make it original and unique compared to others. This song could have several cuts to different scenes and could also have a split screen of the lead singer to make the video more interesting for the viewers. At the chorus, the beat picks up, using this to our advnaatge we could implement coloured strobe lights into a dark room where only part of our lead singers face is visible to keep the mysterious uncertainty that the song gives off.