MV Research: Research Into Potential Artist/ Album/ Song Choice

For our music video research we had to find a selection of music from which we could be inspired and create a promotional package for starting with the music video.

To start my research I visited an indie music site called All Music and two youtube channels known for posting indie/alternate music called MrSuicideSheep and Aesthetic Antlers.

I started scouring these sites for indie/alternate music which is my preferred preference of music which some instances of alternate pop and metal. I tried to get the albums to vary to give me more opportunity to decide on a set song later. This also led me onto bands I haven't even heard of which expanded my musical knowledge.

I then set out to look for music I wouldn't normally listen to and came up with a selection of contender albums in which a good song could come from however I didn't rule out the previous albums I had researched. This also included different genres I wouldn't listen too such as pop and R&B as this would give me more options in the future.

After scouring for a variety of albums I then started to look at individual songs. When looking through the albums that I had collected I visualised how the video could be played out, for example if it would go well with a music video in a style of a pseudo-documentary or very contextual. Wether the artist should be a televised bard meaning they sing or a commercial exhibitionist which is where they show off their image. I also had to put into thought what would be achievable, and bands song like Go To War by Nothing More Would be good as a contextual piece and many things can be used to symbolise war and suffering however, it would be rather difficult to arrange the video in such a way that the performer was a televised bard as that means I would have to assemble a band to believable mimic the bands performance.

I went through listening the songs compiling them into lists of which ones would has aspects of Pseudo-documentary in them, contextual, narrative and stage. Through looking at a variety of different music videos I found that I wanted to do either and contextual or narrative as I can be creative with the editing. This helped me narrow down my song choice.