Monday 13th Spetember

Selecting the Track

As a gorup we had the intenion of making this a pop, rock or dance song. We all originally wanted to head towards the pop choice as we all like the style of music and also the catch lyrics. I personally really liked the idea of picking a dance track but the other members in the group weren't to keen on the idea, because this would take even longer to film than a pop video and be ever more difficult to come up with ideas for it as dance tracks include fast dance routines and choreography and even though it would still look good after rehearsal and preperation it is still a very risky style of music to pick. To find a good enough song for our music video the group spent a lot of time lookig around sites seeing if they could find anything to match what we were looking for, eventually we came across one site that looked promising http://www.totallyunsigned.co.uk/ and the reason for chosing this site was so the song is obtainable and so there is no risk of copyright so therefore we could e-mail the artist asking for permission to use their song. Using this site provided easy access to different genres very quickly and within minutes we were finding songs that sounded like what we had hoped. The first page we looked at on the website didnt really match what we wanted as these songs were more depressing and atmospheric than what we had hoped so trying the next page we came across artists such as Stacey B and other unknown artists these songs were getting a bit closer to the pop effect that we wanted but it still wasn't quite there so we continued our search. Some of the dance tracks really did have the group thinking about that genre and some of the tracks i really did like but yet again it still wasent suitable for the ideas we wanted in the music video and the style. Eventually after looking through pages and pages of songs we narrowed it down to five songs that we really did like as a group even though some were more keen on one song than another, we then listened to the five tracks again and the group had to compromise on one song which ended up being Anna Neale - "Not made for this" this sounded perfect for what we wanted and the ideas we had as we listen to the lyrics. And as the song is a woman singing and i was the only girl in the group, the group knew straight away that i would have to do some lip syncing in the video to make it look believable. The group chose the song as the lyrics were perfect for our ideas and the song was catchy which is what the group wanted. The song style is more pop/rock than just pop so we thought of loads of ideas for both and with doing a pop video we wanted it to look like that ones we had been researching big, sexy and believable. On hearing the song and from again researching into music videos we knew that from the lyrics we could create a really interesting narrative. We also liked how the song changed pace between the verse and the chorus and we thought that this would give us a lot more variety in the video when it comes to doing it. Another main reason for chosing this track is that the narrative from the lyrics is very clear about her being unhappy if it be in her relationship or about life in general young females will be able to relate to this song and narrative as im sure its something girls have to deal with at some point in their lifes. The song choice again being sung by a female means we also get chance to aim this song at males to.

The Lyrics

As the song "Not made for this" is not a well known song we couldnt find the lyrics on the internet or on the site that we obtained it from so as a group we had to keep listening to the song and figure out for ourselves what the song lyrics were. We listening very carefully to the lyrics and then told Andrew what we thought the lyrics were after each line to make it easier and then Adrew would write it down. This proccess took along time but needed to be done as it was vital for the music video and for me as the performer to learn the lyrics to save messing around when it came to filming. After we had finished we had a bit of time left and in this time we listened to the song one more time and then mind mapped ideas down and some things we could include in the video.