Change of plan!

Well although I have been posting about Kate Nash's 'Foundations'. We have COMPLETELY changed our idea. Its been very hard to find a good song that we all really liked and wanted and envisioned to do. From Katy Perry 'Roar', Aqua's 'Barbie girl' to Lana del Rey's 'Summertime Sadness'. However, none of these songs quite fit what we wanted and we couldn't come up with any ideas that could go with these ideas.

We did come up with this song:

                          

And we thought to put a really cheesy video with us acting as men and back up singers also and make it all parody like and comical. However, personally I thought it make come off as too cheesy and cliché and therefore may make the video look amateur and people may laugh at us and not with us, and I wanted to avoid that situation. We had a think about it and decided the song was not for us as the finished product may come out not how we pictured and then there was the task of finding a new song!                                                                                                                                    
                                                            

We thought long and hard and we were given suggestions such as 'Punching in a dream' by the Naked and The Famous. Which I do really like, However we could not think of any really good ideas to go with the song. And as out opening film was very serious we want to have a happy, fun but not cliché music video and this song was not it unfortunately.


                                           

I found a video called animal fighting championships which is a music video for the song 'The Underdog' by Wallpaper, Which shows people who dress up as animals and have a fake fun championship, where they throw confetti and colours on each other, to get an ultimate winner and I thought Emeli Sande's 'Wonderwall' would go really with a video such as the one in the Animal Fighting Championships. The only problem was it was hard to think of an idea that stems from that and is not too similar to that of the video. So we had to think of another song. However, What I really love about the video is the slow motion shots they used and the way they filmed and edited the video, and our group can take some ideas from that and use it in our music video.

We also considered Lana Del Rey's 'Summertime Sadness' but it would be hard to make a video with a good storyline that goes with the song, without replicating the video!!! Another was 'Girlfriend' by Avril Lavinge, the problem with that is that it is such a well known song that we had all already seen the video and therefore our ideas were based on that of the video. Also, the song is very literal and would prove difficult to not do what the lyrics say so we had to scratch that off the list.

After listening to:

• Beyonce
• Christina Aguliera 
• Avril lavinge
• Katy perry
• Whitney Huston
• Aretha Franklin
• Celeste Buckingham
• The Spice Girls
• Miley Cyrus
• The Saturdays
• Ellie goulding
• Emeli Sande
• and even One Direction

We found... Nothing! Until we saw the catwalk advert and on it, a very catchy and Unique song by the name of 'Heavy Cross' by Gossip and then the ideas came to our heads.


     

Because our idea, as always, is very complex I will dedicate a WHOLE post towards it.