Initial Ideas

Before my group began the process of finding a track and developing our ideas for our music video, we were asked to do some research on our own and find a track that one would not usually listen to. Therefore I chose heavy/ death metal as Its a genre one wouldn't find on my ipod. I found an artist called manowar and used a music video of theirs named ' Die for metal' as an exampe to show the class. The video proved to be a prime example as it displayed everything one would usually expect to see in a heavy metal video such as fighting, vandalism of other's belongings and actors wearing large amounts of dark make up shouting at each other.

As well as my idea of incorporating scenes from the music video 'Die for metal', others in my group had some interesting ideas to share. Catrina Kirby for instance had the idea of using a well known opera track yet converting the stereotypical image of the artist singing with a dramatic background by introducing the idea of using cartoon characters and various other surreal creatures. This helped convey the idea of a fantasy world that the artist is living, encouraging the audience to want to be a part of it. And another group member, Ellie Mcgregor suggested using a song by 'The Shirelles'. She expressed her idea of using three african american women singing in a nightclub from the 60s, clothed in long evening gowns. The video would be shot in black and white to convey the time period in which the song is suited to. The idea that was chosen for our own music video was James Burkes approach to Classical music. Yet he thought of using an artist that was of modern background, in other words one that people will of heard of. He showed us an example of a potential video, containing a male cowboy gently strumming a guitar, kicking the sand in a desert and watching an old barn burn to a singe caused by his own careless disposal of a ciggarette. James's idea was given the thumbs up by our teacher Jason.