For our music video, within our group we each had to come up with song choices that we like and that we have ideas for videos. I had a few ideas for several songs but the first two songs I liked for videos were both too short, coming in at around a minute and a half each.
The song I did find in the end that I had a good idea for a video was "Cigarettes in the theatere" by Two Door Cinema Club. This is a band that I listen to from time to time, so already knew their music and before choosing this song I did go through others of theirs, however the band is very proactive in making music videos and nearly all their songs already have videos for them. For this song I had the idea of setting the music video in an actual theatre and having it cut away to the outside and have almost two narratives running along side each other. the idea was for them both to come to the same in by the end of the song so that overall it would be one narrative. this idea was in part inspired by the film Memento that does has what seems to be two story lines throughout that film but due to the scenes being shown out of chronological order, the reveal at the end is that there was always one stroy line continuing throughout the film.
Marcus's song choice was the Kasabian song "Fast Fuse" The song is quite fast paced and so it would suit having a music video made for it that moves at a similar pace. His idea for this video would be performance based, with a band performing the song for the majority of the video. There were good ideas with how we could film the performance with interesting shots and lighting choices but in the end we decided not to choose this song. the reason being that it wouldn't be best to have a video that was entirely performance based. This we feared might be boring to watch and it would be too much of an uphill struggle to make the video interesting for the viewer.
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