Choosing The Perfect Song

Before we could chose the perfect song for our music video we considered what elements we wished to include, we ended up mind mapping it and seeing we could find a song to match all of our ideas. We eventually ended up with this and following on from it two songs in which matched our ideas well.

Once I considered my ideas and a suitable genre for my audience in I had the hard task of picking the perfect song to feature in my Music Video. Me and Alice browsed You Tube and our own individual iTunes and eventually stumbled across The Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi which is a favorite of ours. We listened too it multiple times putting our ideas into perspective and seeing if the beats would fit but it felt to slow for the ideas we had already planned. However, we found a remix of the song by Steve Aoki and we found this had the ideal rhythm for the action to take place. There is also no official video for it so we have nothing to copy, it only has the Movie Project X trailer repeated in it's You Tube video. The song lasts for 6 minutes and 13 seconds but we'll cut this down to around 3 minutes in order to fit our criteria. 

However due to the content of the song being too explicit for our project and the clean version being an awful copy we began looking at closer depth of our other choice Major Lazer ft Amber Coffman - Get Free Remixed by Andy C. This song has a more chilled out vibe, however the remix has given it the dubstep drop we required for our planned action to unfold. This song we feel builds up suspension and we can already see how shots will unfold among the beats. Get Free is 5 minutes 22 seconds long, but luckily we have already found a cut of point around 3 minutes.