3. Initial Ideas- Genre
For the genre of my product we chose rock or metal as it is a genre
that everyone in my group enjoys to listen to. This means that it will be
easier for us to make the product as we have an interest in the genre.
We didn’t only chose this genre as we like it but also for other reasons
such as the conventions used. The conventions got our attention as
they are very different from mainstream genres and how the video
would be made. The video for a song from this genre is going to be
very different from other genres as the rock genre lets you do more
interesting things as they do not have to comply with other bands and
conventions. This allows them to be more free with their videos and
do what they think is best.
With the rock or metal theme we can also base the video around the
song as most songs in the rock genre follow a story in the video. This
will give the video more meaning and will let us have a baseline for
what to use in the video.
4. Initial Ideas- Bands
Cancer Bats
Bring Me The Horizon
Korn
Avenged Sevenfold
Stone Sour
Bullet for My Valentine
Escape the Fate
System of a Down
Bullet for My
Valentine
Avenged
Sevenfold
System of a
Down
Avenged
Sevenfold
Bring Me The
Horizon
Bullet for My
Valentine
5. Initial Ideas- Bands
When choosing the band we made a list of all the bands that we knew in the
genre of music that we wanted to do. We came up with quite a large list of
bands which gave us a large selection on what we could do and use. We
listened to music from each band and thought about which would be most
suitable for the project and what we want to do. After this we had a selection
of bands that we knew we could use for the project. We then thought about
which band would be best for the project from the remaining few. In the end
we had two bands that we could use for our project, each with a separate
style of music video conventions. This meant that we had to listen to music
from each band and watch the videos and decide on which we could make a
better video for. After listening to lots of music from each band we decided to
go with Avenged Sevenfold for the band we use for our video. We decided to
use them as the band as their songs tend to have more of a storyline to them
which means that we can use the video to convey the lyrics. They also have
their own conventions that many other bands don’t have so the video can be
more original and entertaining.
7. Initial Ideas- Songs
• When Choosing a song for our music video we had three main
contenders. These were “Afterlife”, “Nightmare” and “Almost Easy”.
All of these songs would be good for our music project so we all sat
down and listened to them all and thought about which would be
the most suitable for our project. After looking at all the
conventions used in the videos for each song we thought about
what we could do with each song and what would make them
good. In the end we were stuck between the choice of “Nightmare”
and “Almost Easy”. Both of these songs would be very good for our
project but in the end we decided to go with “Nightmare” as it
would be the most suitable and we could do more with it and be
more creative in the video. Once we decided on what song to do
we started to think about what we are going to do within the video.
The lyrics of the song is a major factor on what to put in the video
so we all thought about what we could involve in the music video.
