Start of Music Video Blog

During the first session of planning for our music video we thought the best place to start would be to decide a song.

Our first choices include Fire by Kasabian, Feeling This by Blink 182, Bonzo Goes To Bitburg by The Ramones and Get Up by my own band Turning Days.

We came up with a list of pros and cons for each of these songs to decide which would be the best song for us to create a video for. We looked at all angles we could think of such as what kind of video it would be, where and when we could film, whether the website would be easy to make for this band, whether we would have the right equipment for the song and if a narrative was possible.

After long, we narrowed the options down to two, and this is how they came out against eachother in a table:

Song	Pros	Cons
Get Up	Got the band for filming/website	Not a known/popular song
	Got a venue	Hard to film
	Easier to create website for real band
	Narrative possible	Have to organise a band
Bonzo Goes To Bitburg	Good song	Have to find a venue/area
	Simple instruments	Have to find the equipment

As you can see, we found more pros and less cons for Get Up. This is most probably because I was biased and put Harry in an awkward position. Nevertheless, this is what we came out with. We thought it would be easier to film and create a website for an existing band that we have access to the members because we can be more creative with the website and have more freedom when it comes to filming. Plus, we will not have to create our own makeshift band and find all the instruments needed!

Now we will watch other videos for techniques and see if we can come up with any ideas. (This will be blogged in an analysis of 3 videos each later on.)