Group Assignment

In lesson, we were told to get into the groups that we wanted to do our coursework with. I decided to by myself because I prefer to work on my own and I can rely on myself rather than other people. Also, I can do my own ideas and be in charge of all executive decisions to make my video as best as possible.

"Mrs. Potato Head" - Melanie Martinez (Potential Song No.4)

"Teen Idle" - Marina & The Diamonds (Potential Song No.3)

"Carmen" - Lana Del Ray (Potential Song No.2)

"Gasoline" - Halsey (Potential Song No.1)

Potential Songs

I wanted to do a music video based around the fragile mind so I've spent a lot of time contemplating what song I would like to do and after a lot of thinking, I whittled it down to four potential songs before making my final decision:

1. "Gasoline" - Halsey.
2. "Carmen" - Lana Del Ray.
3. "Teen Idle" - Marina And The Diamonds.
4. "Mrs. Potato Head" - Melanie Martinez.

To decide which song to do, I decided to do weigh up the pros and cons of each song then finally decided which one would be best.

Genre Research: Interviews

Over the summer holidays, I decided to do a little more research into my selected genre. I have two potential artists at the moment: 'Marina and the Diamonds' and 'Halsey' so I've been watching lots of interviews of those two artists talking about their music. In the first interview, the interviewer talks to Marina about her songs being two different styles; either more upbeat and dance-like compared to more "coldplay-esk" and sad which primarily is the essence of the electro-pop genre.

In the interview below, Halsey discusses the influences of her life on her music. She promotes the genre in her music videos by basing each video off of cult classic teen cinema where she felt everybody could feel apart of the music and everyone could relate to it - which is a common convention of this genre. She believes that the best way to achieve that is to have as much visual content as possible, which is why music videos for songs are very important.