Planning - initial ideas

Chris Brown- Ayo

We were going to pick this song for our Music Video but we decided not to do this song as we felt it did not convey the message that we wanted to show and it would be impossible to fit around our story. This song is more a song about getting a lot of girls and then having sex with them and then after that they then just dump them. We felt that our story would not connect with the song as our story is about bullying so we thought that the conventions of the song and the conventions of our story would not work.

Labrinth- Earthquake

This was one of our choices because the song has a very good beat to it but also it does not really have much meaning so you would be able to mold the song into any convention you would want it to portray, for us we felt that this was the song’s biggest weakness as we wanted a song that already has conventions that match those of our chosen story and because of this we decided to not use this song.

Chris Brown- Loyal

We used this song as one of our ideas because we felt that it had a good message to it which was girls are never loyal to guys who do not have money and will always  move on to people with money but because we didn’t want to use that story and there was no other way of changing the songs meaning we decided to drop this song as it is a song that people really like and we felt if we did it in our own way it would always be compared to the original so we decided to not use the song. 

Jay Z ft Kanye West- Ni**as in Paris

We decided to use this song as an idea because of its appeal and how it could connect to our story but there take of the story is more about Racism which has no correlation with our song now and because of this we decided to leave this song because even though we could mold it to fit our story the song is so big we figured that it would not work as people would still compare the song to its original meaning.

Empire Cast - No Apologies 

We feel this would be a good song choice as the current version doesn't have a good music video to it. It seems like a pretty low budget production and isn't really like other music videos as it is just them performing it. We feel if we chose this as our song choice we could make a better music video as we currently don't have great competition at the moment.