Short List Of Songs

The start of my coursework consisted of solely research and now I have completed the analysis of videos, album covers and posters it is the time for me to move on and decide on my song. I will have to plan very carefully and prepare various story boards that will help me to build up a final music video that will hopefully give me a good grade in this coursework. I have been analysing many videos because it has shown me the relationship between the video and the lyrics. I want to make my video relate to the lyrics as much as those, and by doing the research it has helped me to hopefully achieve that. As now I have to decide on my song, I thought it'd be best to choose from a short list. I had previously created a short list, but now I think that I had rushed into it too quickly and I did also say that I had chosen a song but I am now going to analyse each song choice very carefully and I will then come to a final decision. The short list are as follows:

1. Better On The Other Side - The Game ft. Chris Brown
This was originally the first song I planned on doing. I chose this because it was dedicated to a music legend and many people would love to get involved, which would then appeal to everyone. This song had lyrics that were so meaningful to Michael Jackson, You made the world dance, You made the music come to life. These gave me great ideas and the friend that was going to help me was a big fan of him so it would of been a great laugh. A down side of this song is that with it being such a great song I was worried it would be hard to think of many different ideas. One of the ideas we thought of was using a few clips from Michael Jackson's past. I was not sure if I could use them but I took them into consideration and I thought I will find out. Unfortunately, family matters occurred and I wasn't sure if I could carry on doing this song.

2. Alone In This Bed - Framing Hanley
This song is more of a slow than an upbeat rhythm, which is one of the main reason I took this into consideration. I had researched into this song and found a music video on YouTube that some one had created for it. This gave me great inspiration and I thought it would be as easy as we have the surroundings I thought we could use. The lyrics were simple but at the same time had great meaning and you could film many things relating to it. Although, this is not a popular song which is one of the reasons why I had my doubts about it because the actor I chose would have to learn the song, which would take even longer time and if they didn't end up liking the song then I would get a bit stuck.

3. Don't Give Up - Leon Jackson
This song is also a sad, slow song with, in my opinion, great meaning. I chose this song because I feel asthough I can interpret my feelings. I prefer to work with slow songs rather than hectic, upbeat ones. So this song would be perfect as I am a huge fan of Leon Jackson. One downfall of this song is that I may not have a male actor and I don't think I could make it work with a female. This song is relating to love and in my opinion I am quite good with love songs.

4. I Will Be - Leona Lewis
This song would be perfect considering I have a female actress. It is slow and the lyrics can relate to many things that I could do. This song is also connecting a man and a woman so I think it would be fair easier to do because my imagination works best with those scenario's. A downside to this song is that it is some times quick speed and I have listened through it and imagined it would be harder than my next short listed song.

5. Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
This song is one of my all time favourites, which is why it was part of my short list. It is slow through out the song and does not last for longer than 4 minutes. I think that is a huge bonus because then I get time to focus on more important parts of the video. Once again it is another love song so I think I will be able to do okay on this. My friend that would be helping also has a good imagination when it comes to love scenario's so im hoping to have some ideas off her. A down side to this is that it is fairly repetative so I need to think of a few more ideas so it won't get boring.