Song Choice

I and my partner Jessica Alecci had to consider what song we would choose as our final song in which we would make the music video for. Whilst considering this, we had to remember to consider what we had available too us. Whether that was locations, costumes, actors, filming equipment and props. We needed to choose a song from a genre that we would fully be able to re-create and include the typical connotations of that particular genre.
We wanted to choose a genre we were both interested in, as we felt that by doing this we would have a greater understanding of what the traditional conventions of the genre would be and therefore would find it easier to create a music video of this genre. As a result of this decision we chose the genre 'Indie Jazz'. It's a genre I and Jess are both interested in. We then had to narrow this down to one particular song. We looked at a range of artists and their songs, and considered what jess, as the artist, would be most comfortable performing, what we would be able to re-create regarding what we have available to us and also what we could create creative performance and narratives shots too. We chose the song 'Tears Dry On Their Own' by Amy Winehouse. I'm really pleased with this decision. Jess is equally pleased with the outcome, and had previously known the song before choosing and therefore knows the lyrics of the song which will be very beneficial to us when it comes to filming the song.