Song Choice

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Song choice is a vital element in creating a music video as both of us had to be excited by the song prospects enough to be able to create an original music video that fulfilled the standards we have for our final product.To decide on a song Meghan and I decided to list some songs each, and then eliminate them together. Listed below are the original songs we listed before the final one was chosen:

 1. What’s up? - 4 Non Blondes

2. This is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco

3. Gravel to Tempo - Hayley Kiyoko

4. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

5. Migraine - Twenty One Pilots

 6. All These Things I've Done - The Killers

 7. The Kids Aren't Alright - Fall Out Boy

 8. Smile - Mikky Ekko

 We whittled down our options by considering the genre of music we wanted. We first decided that we wanted a modern song, thereby reducing our list to the following:

1. This is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco

2. Gravel to Tempo - Hayley Kiyoko

3. Migraine - Twenty One Pilots

4. The Kids Aren't Alright - Fall Out Boy

5. Smile - Mikky Ekko

And then decided we wanted an alternative song as we wanted the structure that comes with most pop songs (with a strong chorus and calmer verses), but with a focus on the lyrics that we felt was more present in alternative music.

This made our list much more concise and, finally, we chose from the following songs:

1. Gravel to Tempo - Hayley Kiyoko

2. Migraine - Twenty One Pilots

3. Smile - Mikky Ekko

We decided against Gravel to Tempo as, having watched the music video, the narrative was too similar to that of which we were considering for the song, and we didn't feel as if we could interpret the song any differently. We then eliminated Migraine as we decided we couldn't adequately and appropriately cover the topic the song discusses.

Due to this we decided Smile, by Mikky Ekko was the best choice. The structure of the song and the fast paced chorus complements the ideas we have for a narrative, the lyrics are quite ambiguous in their intentions leaving it up to us to find our own interpretation, and we felt that the idea we have for it is an original and creative one.

Some say he’s half man half fish, others say he’s more of a seventy/thirty split. Either way he’s a fishy bastard.

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