The Search For A Song

After deciding as a group (Me, Charlotte Bailey, Claire Martin and Jack Jarvie) the genre of music that we wanted to use, we now have got the tricky task of finding the right song for our video. We want the song to be unknown by any of us, as we think that we will then not have any preconceived ideas about the real video to the song and therefore will not try to emulate it.

We decided that the best way to find a song that none of us would know would be to type little known songs that we know on youtube and then trawl our way through the related videos. I also tried finding obscure music by looking through the line-ups for festivals, plus lists of Mercury Prize nominees. Whilst listening to the songs, we didn't watch their videos, as watching them would distract us from actually listening to the sounds and thinking about how the music makes us feel. We learnt how to do this in class by doing some listening exercises where we all wrote down how the song was making us feel and what we visualise when we hear it. It was surprising to me how similar everyone's ideas were.

After this long process we have started to create a list of possible songs we could use:

I Was A Cub Scout: Pink SquaresBlue October: Dirt RoomJimmy Eat World: My Best TheoryI Blame Coco: Self MachineBand Of Horses: Funeral

We are going to keep searching for a while to get ourselves more choice of song.