Song Choice

When we were trying to find a song to do for our music video, we had a lot to think about. First we thought about our genre: we didn't want to do an acoustic song as the slow music wouldn't allow room for much clever editing. Similarly, we didn't want to do a rap song as they have a very specific set of characteristics and it personally wasn't our type of music. Comparing music, we decided on a rock or indie rock band, as we felt this would have an adequate story in the lyrics and also a good beat. We all went through our personal playlists looking for music, but found there to be simply too much so we decided to come up with an idea first and then try and find a song to fit. We had recently had a lesson on intertexuality, and we had all fallen in love with the idea of doing something set in a different era. Our idea grew quickly, and soon we were sure we were going to do a story about a girl not belonging and trying to find her place. We were going to cut from her getting ready in a mirror to her in different parties, different time periods, trying to find where she belonged and failing miserably.

We immediately started searching for songs, but it proved to be rather difficult as it was now too narrowed. Finally we came up with two possibilities, and after studying the lyrics and imagining our idea to each song, we decided on the Vaccines' song 'If Ya Wanna'.