Music Ideas

When love takes over - Kelly Rowland

I really like this song, and I think that the beat in the chorus would work really well in the type of idea that we have. I can imagine that we would start off with a group of teenagers bored and then put a cd on and start singing to it. The idea that the beat would get carried on through everyone would work well with this song because it starts off slow and then builds up. It also has a beat which we could choreograph to which would allow us to have alot of dancing in, which would give us plenty of action in our video. The narrative would not necessarily link to the song, but with the narrative we would have, that wouldn't matter. Towards the end of the song, the beat slows down and then slowly starts to build up again which would allow us to maybe do some clips in slow motion. We would need one main girl to focus on in the video to make sure that we have someone who could lip sync to the song.

Hot & Cold - Katy Perry

Another song we really looked at was Hot & Cold by Katy Perry. This song is a bit of a different genre that anything else we have looked at because it is completely a pop song. The main thing I liked about this song was the beat in the chorus, and the fact that it wasn't just the chorus that had a noticeable beat in but the whole song. I think that if we were to use this song then we would have to make sure we had a narrative that actually fitted in with song because otherwise the lyrics of the song, which clearly have a narrative behind them, would be lost.

Right to the Start - Keisha Mair - Written by Luke Denny

This is a song which I wrote myself and had a good friend, Keisha to sing it for me. She goes to a music college and was given the backing track by one of her colleagues. We considered doing this song because it would mean I wouldn't have to worry about rights for the song because I own the lyrics and Keisha owns the backing track. Although it would take that element out of the way, we would have to come up with a completely new idea for the music video because it would not fit in with the 'teenagers being bored' idea. My idea for a music video for this would be to have the whole video focused on Keisha and a lad who would be around the same age as her. The video would centre around their past relationship and Keisha singing to him because they have broke up. This would be easily made, and the fact the would only be focusing on two people would make the production go smoother.

Standing Ovation - Becky Orton - Written by Luke Denny

This is another song which I wrote the lyrics for and Becky Orton, another good friend, created a melody to it and accompanied the song with her guitar. This is a completely different genre to what we have already looked at because it is accompanied by a guitar and not an actual backing track which has its pros and cons. A pro to this would be that we wouldn't have to worry about lip syncing, because Becky would be playing the guitar and singing the song which means it would be recorded live. A con to this would be that there would be then little we could do with a video. We could base the song on the stage in the hall, which would then go with the narrative of the song as the song is based on a 'Standing Ovation' which links to the theatre and a stage. Although I would of loved to use this song, someone in the previous year has used Becky, and it has not been successful because the genre of music she does, doesn't work with the type of video we are trying to create.