Research....Our chosen song !

After much deliberation, our group decided to create a music video, however we didn't want to do it in the typical 'pop' style. We wanted to construct abstract shots and use complex editing which in turn will help us to develop a unconventional manner of production rather than a commercial music video to a ballad or pop song, for example Girls Aloud - See The Day



We found a lot of inspiration within James Blakes' - Limit To Your Love music video as it contains many 'out of focus' shots alongside detailed, well constructed lighting angles.
However we also wanted to colaberate with the idea of naturalistic continuity editing, just as this music video experiments with.




We decided to expand on this idea of a collection of random settings and scenes, to create a number of fast paced cuts to a song with a heavy beat. In the True Blood opening credits, the selection of random cuts are linked by the theme of the music, and often has cuts of similair places, for example there are a selection of animals, a snake is filmed at 0.24 seconds, a frog at 1.03 seconds, a dead animal at 0.42 seconds and a fox at 1.04. There are also multiplie images with religious intent, for example, a church choir, a fully immersed baptism at the end of the clip and a graveyard of some sort. The group liked this idea of a random selection of cuts thrown together with linking images.






After watching many music videos such as Radiohead's - Creep and Owl City's - Firefly we decided to use a song that would suit a new innovative and un-narrative type of filming and editing.

Jai Paul's lyrical dubstep song - BTSTU incorporates dynamics and variation to make a very diverse, contemporary sound, perfect for our desired style of music video, therefore this is our chosen song for the project.





Becki F & Rebecca O