Music Video Task

Our media group has been given the challenge to create a music video in a week. I have decided to work with Harrison and Joe, fellow media students, and we have came to the conclusion that we will make a music video for my band called We'll Be Detectives. We have recorded one of our own songs called 'Convention', a song about breaking free from the rules and conventions of day to day life. 

Influences - Firstly, we started looking at some music videos that may influence our own video. We looked at a lot of music videos but we nailed it down to two that we have decided are the influences of our own music video. The first influential music video that we looked at was the video for #STUPiDFACEDD by Wallpaper. We chose this music video as one of our influences because of the classic party scenes that you see in this video. In our music video we wanted to have this kind of party going on while we played as a band (with the music over the top of the video).

Looking at other videos, we came across a music video for a song called 'Keep Your Wits Sharp (Her Words Are Quick)' by a Leeds based band called Mother Vulpine. This video was influential to us because of the use of slow motion and the role of the actual band featuring in the video and being centre of attention, as in some music videos, there is just a short film with music over the top. Watch the best music video ever made below:

The plan - In the end, we have decided to take our influences and come up with our own idea for our music video. Our idea is that there would be a house party (influenced by the Wallpaper music video) and at that house party, the band would be playing the song while people party and dance to the tune. In the video we will have lots of shots from different angles in the room and there will be other parts of the music video including a scene in which people go against convention, smashing the drum kit and guitars to end the video.

The music video will be shown to fellow students in our media class tomorrow afternoon and I am looking forward to showing people the finished product! I shall post the music video on this blog as soon as its available and I will also post a link to the new song 'Convention' by We'll Be Detectives.