Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Selecting a Song

The first thing James and I sought to decide upon was what song we were going to use:


Elephant Stone' by The Stone Roses is an example of the sound James and I are looking for and want to portray in a music video. The beat of the drums and major sounding music helps create a positive sounding piece of music and this definitely does coincide well with the video idea James and I have discussed. However the way this is played may be too 'jolly' and there maybe not enough action to facilitate some of the lighting, camera shots and certain concepts that James and I had in mind for our music video.

'Love Spreads' by The Stone Roses is an example of a song that shows the exact type of attitude and feel that James and I are trying to achieve in our music video. The solo guitar at the beginning of the video and its prominence through out the song gives James and I different ideas for possible shots of the guitarist, for in the song he is the main centre of interest as will he be in the video. From the idea of our film James and I still share a selection of the same ideas for lighting and camera angles, very much still based on the neo-noir film style we both hope to translate this to our music video, and the instrument tones and subject matter of the song I believe go well with the style of filming we are trying to incorporate into our music video.

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