Music choices

The first song we decided to look at was Comeback by Ella Eyre. We wanted to look at this song because it was both up tempo but had some slow bits throughout the song. It incorporated the genre of pop and dance which is what we wanted our music video to be like as well. I liked the style of this video and the various shots that were used. The colours used were not too dark but not too light which was something we wanted to incorporate in our music video as we wanted to use muted colours. As a group, we liked the style of the artist, Ella Eyre, and thought this was something we could include in our video but mess with the style of the artist and make it completely different. I think the reason we didn't decide to use this song was because after a lot of thinking, it didn't exactly represent the genre we wanted to go for. It is a very closed song compared to the other songs we looked at which we could take on in different ways and produce a unique video. 

We then decided to look at Come & Get it by Selena Gomez. As a group, we decided to look at this song because we liked the style of the video and how it had been filmed. It had dark colours which we were thinking about incorporating in our video but it didn't have any muted colours which is what we wanted from the very beginning. Most of the colours that were used were dark and very dull which wouldn't represent our genre very well. I think the reason we decided to look at this video was because the beat of the song was yet again up tempo as we didn't want to go for a song that was ballad like as this limited the images we could portray in our music video. 

Here For You by Gorgon City ft. Laura Welsh was the next song we decided to look at and this was because we all liked the song and the genre of it as it was similar to our chosen genre. When watching the music video I liked the colours that were used as they were muted which clearly represented the genre of the music video and how the artist wanted it to be portrayed. This type of colour scheme is what we want to use in our music video as the genre we are going for is tropical house. The reason we didn't use this song for our music video was because we felt it fitted our genre more and there were other songs that we have looked at that what portray our genre more clearly.  

The next song we decided to look at was I Do by Felix Jaehn because the song fitted the genre we wanted to look at. Our genre, Tropical house, is a very unique genre and not many people have attempted it. We thought because this song doesn't have a video, it would be better to create a video as our ideas would be fresh and wouldn't be similar to anything else. We liked the up tempo style of the song and when listening to it we knew there were many things that could be done to represent the song. We thought we could use a mixture of slo mo shots and time lapsed shots.