At first, I thought choosing a song for my music video would have been an easy task but it turned out to be the complete opposite. I was adamant I wanted to use a song inside that fitted into the indie/alternative genre. Also, after researching my target audience I knew I wanted to create a narrative based music video that featured the artist but without any lip syncing or performance throughout. Also, the song has to be around three to three and a half minutes in length. Personally too, I wanted it to be a song I quite enjoyed as I felt I'd enjoy creating and documenting it much more. I used YouTube, Spotify and Last.fm to search for the right song. Last.fm was probably the most helpful as it allowed me to search by genre meaning I could find a lot more songs I may not have already been aware of. As I'm familiar with music within the genre I wanted to focus on, initial songs I chose were from solo artists I was personally a big fan of, Miles Kane and Jack White. One of the songs I found were 'I'm Shakin'' (Jack White), originally an early 60's blues song by Little Willie John. The other, an original song called Inhaler (Miles Kane) from his debut album Come Closer. Both of these songs were quite lively and upbeat. I eventually came to an initial decision to use Inhaler as the song for my video. I managed to come up with a few initial ideas and even started to film some footage but I found it quite hard to fit a narrative to the style and speed of the song and realised I needed something much slower.
Jack White - I'm Shakin'
Miles Kane - Inhaler
Final Decision
Finally I made the decision to use a song by 18 year old folk singer songwriter Jake Bugg. The song was called Trouble Town and I had been aware of it for a while after coming across it earlier in 2012. It suited what I was looking for perfectly, it was the right pace and met the genre requirements. The only problem was that it was a few seconds under 3 minutes but this shouldn't of been too much of a problem and the video ended up being a good 15 seconds over 3 minutes when finished. I also really like the lyrics and I felt I could make quite a good music video that related to them well. The original song and music video can watched here:
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