Music video shortlist.

After listening to various songs from different genres, we came up with a shortlist of songs we liked that could be our possible choice to make a music video for. From that we will choose the song. These are a few songs we liked and thought about basing our music video on:


As a group chose Too Close by Alex Clare because we liked the genre (alternative rock) of the song. We felt the lyrics were very clear and easily memorable, which would make editing and lip syncing easier and more precise. We knew we wanted a male lead so we focused on male artists and boy bands. The pace of the song is quite fast in some parts and slow in others, which was good as we felt we could add a narrative to the video and tell some sort of story. We would be able to do a range of different edits on our video to this song and show our editing skills.

Alex Clare- Too close


We put this song in our shortlist because the lyrics tell a very strong narrative which would make the video more interesting and visually pleasing to the audience. The song was also set in the streets of London meaning it's more practical as we're in London too. The group came up with lots of ideas for this video rather than others we've seen- so this became a strong candidate in which song to create a video for.

Just Jack- The day I died.



This song by Coldplay is very upbeat and faced paced. We felt this would be a good song to make a video for as it would show off our editing skills. However, we felt it would be more time consuming as the faster the pace of the song, the more editing and base tracks we would need to do. We also felt it would be better to choose a song with a male vocal or solo artist as it would be more practical for us.

Coldplay- every teardrop is a waterfall


We chose this song mainly because of the male lead. We felt the video would be fairly simple, with camera work being the main contributor to the video.

Ed Sheeran- Lego House


She's so lovely by Scouting for Girls was our last option. We've kept it as a backup just incase all else fails. This is because we felt the narrative of the song was fairly complicated and not straightforward like the other songs. Also, we worked out that we'd need more props and people to place in the shots which would be harder to do as we can't rely on others from outside the group. The pace of the song is also very fast, which would mean we'd have to show more images and base tracks in the video; this would take much longer to edit.
Scouting for girls- She's so lovely