Song Choice - 'Bring Me To Life' By Evanescence

After our meetings we made a decision to create a video from the Alternative Rock genre. We chose to produce a new music video for the song 'Bring Me To Life' by Evanescence, we all like the band and song, other reasons for this decision are:

• The song builds up to a fast tempo- this will allow us to show our skills in editing and editing on the beat.
• The song is from the Rock genre.
• The song allows use to create a narrative that we can relate to teenage lives.
• We all enjoy the song, therefore we will not get sick of listening to the song and we all have an idea of the lyrics.
• It is not too recent, this allows the video to shine our creative skills as people will not compare it to the original video.
• As it was released in 2003, this abolishes any copyright issues when posting on You Tube.

Genre Choice - Rock

After talking about what genre's each of us enjoy listening to in our leisure time, we discovered one genre that we are all particularly comfortable with is Rock. However, Rock does split into several genres, each of which have their own unique sets of codes and conventions, so we decided to do further research into which specific genre we would enjoy the most and be able to relate to best.

Faye's Favourite Band- Linkin Park
Jamie's Favoutire Band- Arctic Monkeys
Elliot's Favourite Band- A Day To Remember

Although all of the bands we talked about have slightly different sub-genre's attached to them, the closest genre we could think of was the Alternative genre. The Alternative rock genre started to hit the charts in 1980's as artists and bands began to start merging different sub genres like grune, britpop, gothic rock and Indie pop.
We all agreed that this genre suits us well, we all feel comfortable with the choice and will now start looking into artists/ songs within this genre that we will all fell comfortable developing a music video with.