Research For My Song Choice

At the start of this project, I was working in a group with two other members. One of whom is a member of a country band called Maple Necks. A decision was made to make a music video for a track called "Folsom Prison" by Johnny Cash as the band had done a cover version of this song. After working together for a week or so, it became apparent that we each had very different ideas for the video and the genre of the music wasn't fitting to the suggestions that some of the members came up with. Country music is not my 'cup of tea' and so the group disbanded.

Folsom Prison Blues

My next song choice was one of  my own tracks (Grand Comme Le Ciel/Reve Tombe) that I recorded. However, due to the amount of midi and sampled instruments, and the fact that none of the instruments were real, this would make it harder to locate the certain instruments used for the piece, so I decided not to continue. Also, the track went on for too long, and there were no lyrics, which made it difficult to put visuals to.


My next song choice was "A Little Piece Of Heaven" by Avenged Sevenfold



I thought about this song as it came first on my iTunes library, and has really good instrumentation (probably a whole orchestra). The instrumentation parts are almost classical, with a jazzy feel, but the lyrics are very dis-heartening.This song is heavy metal, and also too long. As well as this, the wording is explicit, and it is about Necrophilia. For these various reasons, I have decided not to use this track.

My next song choice was "Last Man Standing" by Simple Plan


While I had a brilliant idea of a script: <script>

I decided that blowing up cars wasn't the best strategy for a music video, and also expense would get in the way. So I had to abandon the idea due to the song seeming too active for my low budget shots.



In the end, I decided on "Broken Hearts Parade" by Good Charlotte. I like this band and in particular I like this track. The track length also fell within the three minute threshold. I am also familiar with the opening guitar riff of the song. I like the lyrics to this song and had various visuals come to mind for the line 'Everywhere we go, we got some skeletons to follow'. I was then told not to take the lyrics literally and to think of more original ideas.